Now that it’s winding down, we can say it definitively: 2019 had some blockbuster stories, the top ten of which we’ve recognized here. As is always the case in aviation, where nothing except the planes themselves go very fast, many of the stories are high, or low, points in long-running tales while others are encapsulations of movements that have been hinted at before and that arrived fully formed in the past year. All of them, it’s safe to say, have roots in the past along and will surely continue to affect GA, some of them for years or decades to come.
4. Cirrus Vision Jet G2
Cirrus Aircraftâs Vision Jet, which won aviationâs highest honor, the Collier Trophy, when the single-engine jet hit the market a few years ago, stepped it up significantly in 2019 with autothrottles and performance improvements across the board for its second generation SF-50. In so doing it earned the Plane & Pilot Plane Of The Year award.