Cirrus SR20
The Cirrus Design SR20 is a piston engine composite monoplane that seats four.
History
Certified by the FAA in 1998, hundreds have been sold since the first was delivered in 1999. One of the major selling points for the SR20 is that it has a fully digital avionics suite with one 10-inch Avidyne FlightMax primary flight display and one multi-function display. A pair of Garmin GNS430s provide GPS navigation, conventional radio navigation, and radio communications.
The SR20, like the slightly faster SR22, is equipped with Cirrus Design's Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System, a large parachute which can be deployed in an emergency to lower the entire aircraft to the ground safely.
Despite the CAP System the Safety record of the SR20 hasn't been perfect, and the aircraft has had a number of accidents resulting in fatalities when the parachute either didn't deploy correctly or deployed too late. Cirus has made some changes to the parachute system because of this.
On June 1 2004, the SR20 became the first aircraft to achieve the new European Aviation Safety Agency certificate for aircraft imported into the European Union.
Specifications (SR20-G2)
General Characteristics
- Crew: one pilot
- Capacity: 3 passengers
- Length: 26 ft 0 in (9.33 m)
- Wingspan: 35 ft 7 in (11.05 m)
- Height: 8 ft 6 in ( m)
- Wing area: 135 ft² (9.5 m²)
- Empty: 2,070 lb ( kg)
- Loaded: lb ( kg)
- Maximum takeoff: 3,000 lb ( kg)
- Powerplant: 1x TCM IO-360-ES, 200 hp (149 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 175 mph (280 km/h)
- Range: 992 miles (1,588 km)
- Service ceiling: ft ( m)
- Rate of climb: 900 ft/min (274 m/min)
- Wing loading: lb/ft² ( kg/m²)
- Power/Mass:
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