Cirrus Talks Jets…
Cirrus Design spokeswoman Kate Dougherty says the company has “not been shy” about prospects for a personal jet but we have to wonder if navel-gazing is giving way to a nuts-and-bolts (or fiberglass-and-epoxy) reality, since middle managers are now talking to reporters about the company’s future jet-fuel needs in Duluth. In what strikes us as an offhand remark to a writer from the Duluth News Tribune concerning controversy over the replacement of Cirrus Design’s home-airport fuel dealer, Cirrus’s Executive Vice President of Business Administration, Bill King, says Cirrus, which maintains its own avgas facility, may well be a customer of the new FBO “because 100 LL won’t be our only fuel in the future.”
Mustang (or Eclipse) Killer In The Works?
Cirrus Design spokeswoman Kate Dougherty says the company has "not been shy" about prospects for a personal jet but we have to wonder if navel-gazing is giving way to a nuts-and-bolts (or fiberglass-and-epoxy) reality, since middle managers are now talking to reporters about the company's future jet-fuel needs in Duluth. In what strikes us as an offhand remark to a writer from the Duluth News Tribune concerning controversy over the replacement of Cirrus Design's home-airport fuel dealer, Cirrus's Executive Vice President of Business Administration, Bill King, says Cirrus, which maintains its own avgas facility, may well be a customer of the new FBO "because 100 LL won't be our only fuel in the future." Sure, Cirrus has been looking at diesel. But in an e-mail to AVweb, Dougherty said the jet idea is nothing new. "We have not been shy, over the years, in talking about a personal jet," she wrote. She said the company has been following development of light jet engines in recent years and, if it decides to build a jet, Cirrus Design promises something special. "So, true to our nature of refusing status quo, we look at absolutely everything," she wrote. And Ballistic Recovery Systems has been researching full-plane parachutes for jets....
