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Gary Jet Center Named Cirrus Aircraft® Authorized Service Center
Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2021 Online Issue GARY, IND. – Gary Jet Center (GJC) has entered into an agreement with Cirrus Aircraft to be an Authorized Service Center…
State Aeronautics Directors Meet For The Betterment of The Industry
88th Annual NASAO Convention & Trade Show Held In St. Paul by Dave Weiman Published in Midwest Flyer – December 2019/January 2020 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – The fall season started…
Cirrus Now At St. Paul Downtown Airport
All photos by Randy Arneson, except where otherwise noted. Published in Midwest Flyer – August/September 2019 issue ST. PAUL, MINN. – Approximately 200 Cirrus aircraft owners, pilots and interested guests…
Cirrus Aircraft Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Published in Midwest Flyer – August/September 2019 issue DULUTH, MINN. & KNOXVILLE, TENN. – Cirrus Aircraft has announced that Zean Nielsen has been selected to succeed cofounder Dale Klapmeier as…
Cirrus Aircraft Reports Strongest Deliveries In A Decade, Highlighted by Vision® Jet Growth
Published in Midwest Flyer – April/May 2018 issue DULUTH, MINN. & KNOXVILLE, TENN.– Cirrus Aircraft has announced that new customer aircraft deliveries for the company’s best-selling SR Series showed steady…
Dale Klapmeier To Step Down As Cirrus Aircraft CEO
Published in Midwest Flyer – April/May 2019 issue DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft has announced that Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee, Dale Klapmeier, will…
Cirrus Aircraft Unveils Generation 2 Vision Jet
Published in Midwest Flyer – February/March 2019 issue DULUTH, MINN. & KNOXVILLE, TENN. – Cirrus Aircraft has announced the launch of their next generation Vision JetTM – ‘G2’ – enhancing…
Strong Aircraft Deliveries Drive Impressive 2017 Performance At Cirrus Aircraft
Published in Midwest Flyer – April/May 2018 issue DULUTH, MINN. & KNOXVILLE, TENN. – Cirrus Aircraft announced in February that new customer aircraft deliveries for the company’s best-selling SR Series…
New Senior Vice President of Product Development At Cirrus
Published in Midwest Flyer – April/May 2018 issue DULUTH, MINN. & KNOXVILLE, TENN. – As Cirrus Aircraft continues to innovate and lead general aviation with the best-selling SR series aircraft…
Premier Jet Center Appointed Cirrus Service Center
Published in Midwest Flyer – June/July 2017 issue EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. – Premier Jet Center has been designated an authorized service center by Cirrus Aircraft Corporation at its facilities at…
Thunderbird Aviation Named Cirrus Flight Training Center
Published in Midwest Flyer – June/July 2017 issue EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. – Thunderbird Aviation has entered into an agreement with Cirrus Aircraft to be an authorized Cirrus Aircraft Flight Training…
Cirrus Aircraft Launches G6… The Smartest, Safest, Most Advanced Cirrus Ever
Published in Midwest Flyer – February/March 2017 issue DULUTH & KNOXVILLE – Cirrus Aircraft has announced the launch of the all-new 2017 G6 – the smartest, safest and most advanced…
Al Waterloo Joins Cirrus Aircraft To Cover Wisconsin & Chicago
Published in Midwest Flyer – Oct/Nov 2016 DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft has recently named Al Waterloo of Oak Park, Illinois, as its sales manager covering Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin….
DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft announced February 16, 2016, enhanced connectivity, convenience, design and luxury in the new 2016 SR series aircraft, delivering an experience on par with luxury automobiles…
Cirrus Hiring Production Employees For Vision Jet
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The Duluth, Minnesota-based manufacturer, Cirrus Aircraft, is actively seeking out employees for its Grand Forks, North Dakota plant to fulfill orders for its Vision SF50 personal jet….
Canadian Fishing Fly-Out Attracts Top Gun Pilot
by Dave Weiman What pilot can honestly say that as they push in the throttle of their Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft or Cirrus, and roll down the runway, that they have…
Cirrus Vision SF50® Personal Jet Enters Final Stages of Certification
DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft announced August 25, 2015, the FAA issued Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) for its Vision SF50 personal jet, marking another significant milestone in the aircraft’s certification…
Cirrus Announces New Vision Center
DULUTH, MINN. – In a special ceremony on May 6, 2015, at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee, Cirrus Aircraft Co-Founder and CEO Dale Klapmeier joined Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam…
Pilot/Entertainer Dierks Bentley Highlights EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Opening Day Concert
OSHKOSH, WIS. – Dierks Bentley, who has rocketed to the top tier of country music’s hitmakers, will get EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 week off to a great start when he…
Final Conforming Vision SF50® Personal Jet Takes Flight To Complete Certification Fleet
DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft has announced the successful maiden flight of the third and final conforming flight test aircraft, ‘C-Two’ (C2), in their Vision SF50 personal jet program. The…
Cirrus Partners With Lake Superior College For Workforce Development Program
DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft has announced a partnership with Lake Superior College to develop and implement an Aircraft Assembly Pre-employment Program. The program is part of a Minnesota Job…
General Observations of AirVenture 2013
“Oh my gosh, how’d they do that?” by Harold Green This year EAA AirVenture, July 29 thru August 4, 2013, provided an opportunity to consider the impact of this event…
Stars Do Shine At AOPA Aviation Summit
by Dave Weiman PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The AOPA Aviation Summit, October 11-13, 2012, showed signs of stardom from both Hollywood and the GA community. Regardless of wealth, fame or…
Dale Klapmeier Recognized At AERO
DULUTH, MINN. – Cirrus Aircraft CEO Dale Klapmeier was awarded the German magazine Fliegermagazin’s prestigious “Industry Leader of the Year Award For 2012” at AERO, Europe’s largest general aviation trade show, held…
Wouters Replaced Klapmeier, Klapmeier Replaces Wouters… Future of Cirrus Jet Now In Hands of Chinese
by Dave Weiman HARTFORD, CONN. – In an announcement made September 19, 2011 in Duluth, Minn., Cirrus Aircraft cofounder, Dale Klapmeier, was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO), replacing Brent Wouters,…