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FLYING HIGH A18 With its sleek, radical four-seat plane, Cirrus Design is taking on Cessna and shaking up the small-plane market...
...comes in an industry that has been struggling to regain altitude. Sales of all small airplanes hit an all-time high of 18,000 in 1978 but dropped to 2,600 just five years later, hurt in particular by liability issues. Things got so bad that in 1986, Cessna temporarily stopped production of single-engine aircraft...
Unlike other new-entrant designers such as Lancair and Diamond Aircraft--which sell similar high-performance, artfully designed planes--Cirrus has set its sights on the granddaddy of airplane builders, the venerable 76-year-old Cessna Aircraft Co. of Wichita, Kans. The Textron subsidiary has sold more than 23,000 of its Skylane 182s, and the distinctive, high-wing, small-propeller planes are so ubiquitous that there probably isn't a pilot who hasn't flown a Cessna at least once...
Inspired, King took a leave from his job and signed up for intensive pilot training at a school in Pompano Beach, Fla. Training and studying all day for 20 days straight, King, 30, learned to operate a single-engine Cessna 172 under visual flight rules. "I was scared at the beginning, but now I love to fly," says King, a licensed pilot who is working toward a second certification that will allow him to fly in bad weather and at night by using the plane's instruments. "It's very relaxing being up there," he says. "Hey, it's cheaper...
...Number of miles separating a Cessna plane from the White House after it entered restricted space last week, causing a partial evacuation...