“Making it too hard to fly is not a good value.” “We have to lose a lot of this macho stuff,” Alan Klapmeier told Aviation Consumer in a 1997 interview. Even so, they maintained that traditional airplanes from Cessna, Piper and others were too hard to fly, lacked intelligent safety features and failed to push the technological edge in both design and manufacturing. By 1993, company founders-and brothers-Alan and Dale Klapmeier announced kits were a dead end for them. Cirrus Design began life offering a kit for the VK30, a composite piston-single pusher seating five. The American success story has been told plenty of times. To get a fresh feel for the market, we took a close look.
Like most popular piston singles, resale values on well-cared-for SR20s are up. That stretched the useful load and potentially increased the engine’s TBO. But the SR20 got a boost in ego-and performance-back in 2017 when Cirrus re-engined the six-cylinder Continental-power bird with a smooth-running and efficient Lycoming IO-390. It may never lose its trainer title, and until recently, the SR20 has been overshadowed by the SR22. Park a later-model Cirrus SR20 nose-to-nose with its big-brother SR22 and you’ll be hard-pressed to tell which is which.Īnd that’s a hint for why the SR20 is a good primer for flying the higher-horsepower SR22, and for many new pilots, starting in an SR20 is the better way to move up. Well-cared-for late models are in such demand they sell for more than their factory new retail prices. Aircraft Bluebook suggests a $520,000 retail price.
Known as a "Cirrus Airframe Parachute System" or CAPS, it was a "standard feature on all Cirrus aircraft," the company added.Thanks to Jonathan Sands for sending the photo of his 2019 SR20 for the lead photo. Meanwhile, in a statement to Newsweek, Cirrus said it "was the first and remains the only manufacturer to include a whole-airframe parachute safety system as standard equipment on a certified aircraft." "We are working to understand how and why these planes collided," said John Brannen, NTSB's investigator-in-charge said in the statement, "it is so fortunate that no one was injured in this collision." A preliminary report would be published within the next two weeks and the investigation would take between 12 and 18 months to complete. In a statement to Newsweek, the NTSB said it had interviewed both pilots and listened to air traffic control recordings. "We are participating in an active investigation of the incident with the FAA and NTSB," it added. In a statement, Key Lime Air said that its plane "sustained substantial damage to the empennage and tail section but the pilot was able to continue the approach and landed safely. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement that it was investigating the incident with the NTSB and that "we have no reports of people on the ground being injured."
I mean that's the amazing part of this," he added. "I don't remember anything like this-especially everybody walking away. "Every one of these pilots needs to go buy a lottery ticket right now," said Arapahoe County Sheriff's Deputy John Bartmann, according to the Associated Press. The Fairchild landed at the airport although it did suffer significant damage to its tail section.Ĭrews with South Metro Fire Rescue and the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office rushed to the wreckage. The Cirrus deployed a red and white parachute and video shows it floating to a safe landing in a field. Then the controller said: "Cirrus 6 Delta Juliet if you hear this transmission we have emergency vehicles in your direction." PLANE CRASH: Fire officials say no one was injured after a cargo plane and a smaller aircraft collided in the air over a Colorado park Wednesday morning.
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