Aircraft
Cirrus Gets FAA Production Certificate for SF50 Jet
The company currently holds an order backlog of 600 single-engine SF50 jets worth more than $1 billion.
With an FAA Production Certificate now in hand, Cirrus Aircraft will now begin ramping up manufacturing of its single-engine SF50 jet to one aircraft per week, with a production rate goal of 100 aircraft per year in 2018 and, eventually, up to 125 annually. (Photo: Cirrus Aircraft)
With an FAA Production Certificate now in hand, Cirrus Aircraft will now begin ramping up manufacturing of its single-engine SF50 jet to one aircraft per week, with a production rate goal of 100 aircraft per year in 2018 and, eventually, up to 125 annually. (Photo: Cirrus Aircraft)

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.