Aircraft
Dubai Debutant: Cirrus SR22-G3
Cirrus Design Corporation announced last week that its fleet of more than 3,500 SR20 and SR22 composite, single-engine piston airplanes has passed two mill

Cirrus Design Corporation announced last week that its fleet of more than 3,500 SR20 and SR22 composite, single-engine piston airplanes has passed two million flight hours–or the equivalent in distance of two trips to the sun and back.

With that much accumulated experience, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the four examples of the third-generation SR22-G3, making a rather dramatic debut of the model at the Dubai Air Show, flew here under their own power. The two displayed by Cirrus Design are turbo-charged, with a cruise speed of 210 knots–and are for sale. The pair displayed by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise are the first for DAE’s training academy. They are not turbo-charged and have a cruise speed of 185 knots. The SR22-G3 is powered by the Continental 310 hp IO-550 piston engine.

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