Lufthansa kjøper Cirrus SR20 til trening - Curt Lewis

Germany's Lufthansa buys fleet of Cirrus airplanes for training pilots

Lufthansa Aviation Training, the flight training program operated by Lufthansa Airlines, selected Cirrus Aircraft's SR20 for its primary training fleet.

Lufthansa Aviation Training, a flight training program operated by Lufthansa Airlines, has ordered 25 SR20 Cirrus Aircraft planes for training pilots.

The fleet will be used to train Lufthansa Airlines pilots as well as pilots for Swiss Air, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings, which are all owned by Germany-based Lufthansa Group. Lufthansa is Germany's largest airline and is one of the largest in Europe.

The aircraft also will be used to train pilots for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines along with All Nippon Airways and the German Air Force, according to a release from Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus Design Group, which is better known as Cirrus Aircraft. The flight-training programs are based in Goodyear, Arizona.

In 1999, the SR20 became the Duluth-based aircraft manufacturer's first production plane.

"Today's forward-thinking airlines and pilot training programs are realizing the immediate benefits of teaching and learning in the most effective equipment available uniquely from Cirrus," said Todd Simmons, president, Customer Experience at Cirrus Aircraft, in a statement. "Those benefits are amplified in the airline pilot training environment as the Cirrus SR series solution offers competitive advantages of advanced navigation and safety systems similar to the systems these new pilots will use in the airlines' larger aircraft."

Last month, Cirrus Aircraft received special certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to accelerate deliveries of its new SF50 Vision Jet, allowing production without regulators inspecting each plane as it comes off the line.