Aircraft
Pilot Report: Cirrus Vision Jet
Cirrus’s Vision Jet delivers on the promise of excellent performance, handling, and a spacious comfortable cabin.
The Vision Jet has plenty of fuel capacity for the short trips typical of business travel. With a full load of fuel (296 gallons) it can carry almost 500 pounds of payload, offering plenty of capacity for two average-size people and their bags. (Photo: Matt Thurber)
The Vision Jet has plenty of fuel capacity for the short trips typical of business travel. With a full load of fuel (296 gallons) it can carry almost 500 pounds of payload, offering plenty of capacity for two average-size people and their bags. (Photo: Matt Thurber)

In June 2007, Cirrus Aircraft unveiled the configuration of its new single-engine jet. At the time, it appeared as though Cirrus was jumping on the same bandwagon as other would-be or existing aircraft manufacturers. The apparent market for a single-engine jet, if all the prognostications were to be believed, was going to soar, part of the then-current hype projecting huge fleets of very light jets about to clog up the world’s airspace.

The list of would-be single-engine jets was long, yet only a handful have actually flown: the VisionAire Vantage, PiperJet, Eclipse 400, Diamond D-Jet, and Stratos 714. While Stratos’s effort has recently seen renewed activity including flight testing, only one—Cirrus’s SF50 Vision Jet—has made it into production.

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