Very Light Jet - Cirrus SF50 kan nå bygges, omsider - Også den med fallskjerm - AIN

FOCUS ON MRO - May 3, 2017

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Cirrus Gets FAA Production Certificate for SF50 Jet Cirrus Aircraft received the FAA production certificate for its single-engine SF50 Vision Jet yesterday and will now begin ramping up manufacturing to one aircraft per week. The production rate goal is 100 aircraft per year in 2018 and, eventually, as many as 125 annually. Cirrus received its FAA type certificate for the SF50 in October and delivered the first customer aircraft on December 19. Meanwhile, EASA certification is pending, and Cirrus is making a push to introduce the SF50 to the air-taxi market. The SF50 is equipped with the Cirrus Perspective Touch cockpit based on the Garmin G3000 avionics suite and powered by a single 1,800-pound-thrust Williams FJ33-5A turbofan. It is equipped with a ballistic whole-aircraft parachute system. Cirrus is also building a new customer delivery, training, and support facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, largely to support the SF50. Additionally, it is hiring between 100 and 200 additional personnel and has expanded its production facilities for the SF50. The company currently holds an order backlog of 600 SF50s worth more than $1 billion. The single-engine jet retails for just less than $2 million.