A Long Way Flown...

How's 3,500 airplanes flown two million hours -- in eight years?

That's what Cirrus Design's Alan and Dale Klapmeier have wrought on general aviation, a degree of success that so defied convention wisdom of 1994, when the brothers -- already 10 years in business as an aircraft-kit maker -- unveiled a mock-up of their futuristic SR20 at Oshkosh.

Thanks to cutting-edge airplanes that perform, innovative design and creative marketing, the Cirrus SR22 has become the single best-selling piston airplane in just six years...

Now the company is going in two new directions at once: growing up to a single-engine "personal" jet; and growing down to a Light Sport Aircraft...

And to think naysayers once proclaimed Cirrus would never deliver an airplane...

Congrats to all the folks at Cirrus. Nothing improves the breed like competition -- and nothing says success like imitation...