You want to know what new airplane the folks at Cirrus Aircraft are working on right now? Yeah, we do, too, but they are tight lipped about it, if there even is a new airplane in the works. But they are happy to discuss what they are doing right now, and it's cutting-edge stuff. I spoke with Cirrus President of Customer Experience Todd Simmons on the third day of Oshkosh 2022, and it was great to catch up and to hear his thoughts on where Cirrus stands with its growth and how its vision for all things SR and SF, many of those ideas formulated a decade ago, have helped drive the design of the SR22/SR20 and the SF50 Vision Jet. It gets said a lot, that Cirrus is the leading maker of small personal transportation aircraft, but its model lineup is small, consisting of the SR22, a six-cylinder four-/five-seat all-composite single with industry-best safety systems and the single-engine turbofan SF50 Vision Jet...ditto on the safety systems there. The company is closing in on 9,000 aircraft sold, a figure it expects to hit sometime in 2023. The vast majority of those sales are of the approximately $1 million SR22, which has been the top-selling single in aviation for 20 years running.
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