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The Cirrus SF50 VisionJet is the world's most affordable private jet
Architecture Digest via Fox News ^ | 07/17/2017 | Nick Mafi

Posted on 07/17/2017 5:24:28 AM PDT by DFG

The private jet industry is highly competitive, one in which companies will utilize any advantage to maintain existing clients while also luring in new ones. Which makes the fact that Cirrus — a Duluth, Minn.-based aviation company — has come out with the world's most affordable private jet something that will turn heads in the industry.

After roughly a decade of development, Cirrus is beginning to deliver their first batch of SF50 Vision Jets to the more than 600 customers who were the first to purchase them (the inaugural plane arrived in Switzerland around mid-May of this year). The company received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification late last year, which not only paved the way for Americans to purchase the jet, but for foreign buyers to lobby their government for a proper flying certification (FAA-certified private jets can quickly receive the required paperwork to fly in and out of foreign countries).

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; bizjet; china; chinaaviation; cirrus; sf50; vision
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To: grobdriver
"...let alone insurance, upkeep and maintenance, and paying for a pilot (if you don't personally fly). Heh. You forgot fuel... "

And landing fees....

21 posted on 07/17/2017 7:25:54 AM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: neverevergiveup

The price of avoiding TSA pawing over your person and all of your stuff is just one benefit. I would also expect to be able to fly between smaller regional airports which can save a lot of ground commute time if your business has you out a distance from major metro areas.

Most of the business trips I have been on it was more time (as well as cost) effective for me to get a car and drive the whole 8-10 hours than to drive to the airport, catch a commercial plane (be at the airport at least an hour ahead for my TSA gropes), pick up a rental car on arrival then drive the rest of the way. For the high power executive the private jet would get them there, let them get business done and be back again in the time any other option would take just to get them there.


22 posted on 07/17/2017 7:46:35 AM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us)
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To: neverevergiveup
... Doesn't seem to make a lot of economic sense, even at that ‘cut-rate’ price...

You avoid TSA checks and lines, plus you can fly with your personal hardware still in its holster.

23 posted on 07/17/2017 7:48:26 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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24 posted on 07/17/2017 10:37:12 AM PDT by Tony in Hawaii (Some of them. I'm sure, are good people.)
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To: Flying Circus
I have a few friends who are CEOs of large private companies, and they use NetJets.
25 posted on 07/17/2017 11:23:20 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of these would go to outfits like NetJets. I also knew some vendors with operations in the hinterlands that would fly executives, sales teams and big customers around in their private jets. The market is definitely there and hitting a lower price point just expands that market. Still way, way outside the limits of my humble budget.


26 posted on 07/17/2017 1:31:09 PM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Hey - a penny saved is a penny earned!

So if I buy one of these instead of a Gulf Stream I earn about $10 million...nice, mine is on order... :)

The $10 million saved pays for the VisionJet and leaves me with $8 million...I like that a lot!

27 posted on 07/17/2017 1:49:16 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea ((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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To: DFG
The jet has a cruising speed of just 345 mph. One comment sums it up:
Only $1.96 million? For $250K , you can purchase an older model Cessna 421B/C and fly at the same altitudes at 50 knots slower, have more room and save about $1.7M. That's a lot of trips back and forth to Miami.
Plus, in the Cessna you won't be flying something with Chinese parts.
28 posted on 07/17/2017 1:59:18 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: xp38; DFG
A single jet engine and the whole thing is Chinese. Uh huh.

Chinese ownership, built in America...with a lot of American ingenuity. I would buy one if it were 'affordable' for me...

29 posted on 07/17/2017 1:59:45 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea ((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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To: Flying Circus

“Still way, way outside the limits of my humble budget.”

Me too..


30 posted on 07/17/2017 2:30:23 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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