CIRRUS astonished press at FLY! The London Air Show with the announcement that the US company is definitely going to develop and produce a jet version of its best-selling SR22.

"We can confirm that we will be going ahead with a personal jet," said John Bingham, vice-president of sales & marketing worldwide. "It will be the style and have the same safety focus as our piston aircraft. It will be a different plane but deliberately designed for transition from piston to jet.
"It is the dawn of yet another exciting era for our company."

Cirrus boss Alan Klapmeier first hinted at the possibility of a jet at last November's AOPA Expo. He said then that there is a growing market for an easy-to operate, low-cost, possibly even single engine jet aircraft. "Call it a  Personal Jet."

Mr Klapmeier went on to say, "Such an aircraft would probably cost less than $1 million and would, of course, be equipped with the company's signature safety device, the CIRRUS Airframe Parachute System."
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