Cirrus SR20

Cirrus SR20
Cirrus SR20 taking off in Gloucestershire
Type:	Light aircraft
Design country:	United States
Manufacturer:	Cirrus Design Corporation
First flight:	March 21, 1995
Production time:	In production since 1999
Number of pieces:	approx. 4000 (status: end of 2007)

The Cirrus SR20 is a single-engine light aircraft with a piston engine produced by the US aircraft manufacturer Cirrus Aircraft Corporation , Duluth (Minnesota) . The four - seat low - wing aircraft is made of composite material.

history

The SR20 had its maiden flight on March 21, 1995 and was approved by the FAA in 1998. Hundreds of models have been sold since first delivery in 1999. One of the advantages of the SR20 is that it is equipped with fully digital avionics - a 10-inch primary flight display (Avidyne FlightMax) and a multifunction display. Two Garmin - GNS430 provide GPS Navigation, Radio Navigation and conventional radio link. The SR20 is, as faster and more powerful engines SR22 , with the rescue system Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System (CAPS) equipped, a large parachute which can be deployed in an emergency to the entire aircraft to bring safely to the ground.

On June 1, 2004, the SR20 was the first model to receive the certificate for imported aircraft from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

The third generation of the SR20 (like the SR22) (SR20 G3) is now available. More than 700 changes were made to this, including a completely new wing structure with a carbon spar .

The French Air Force has ordered 13 machines for the training of their navigators, which are to be operated by the company CATS. The machines are stationed in Salon-de-Provence .

The model has been in use since mid-2011 with the 557th Flight Training Squadron (557th FTS) of the US Air Force Academy as a beginner training aircraft under the designation T-53A . The SR20 replaced the leased Diamond Aircraft T-52A there.

The Lufthansa flight school Lufthansa Aviation Training in Arizona is modernizing its fleet and buying 25 new SR20 aircraft

Technical data SR20 G6

Cirrus SR20 ( Aeroporto de Avaré-Arandu , 2007)

• Crew: one pilot
• Capacity: three passengers
• Length: 7.92 m
• Span: 11.68 m
• Height: 2.7 m
• Drive: 1 × Lycoming Engines (aircraft engine manufacturer) Lycoming IO-390-C3B6 with 160 kW
• Empty weight: 958 kg
• Max. Takeoff weight: 1428 kg
• Max. Cruising speed : 155 KTAS
• Service ceiling: 17,500 ft (5,334 m)
• Climb rate: 781 ft / min (3.97 m / s)

Incidents

• On the afternoon of October 11, 2006, at 2:45 pm local time, an SR20 from New York Yankees player Cory Lidle crashed into the 52-story New York apartment building " Belaire ". Cory Lidle and his flight instructor were killed.
• On the evening of May 19, 2019, an SR20 crashed over the North Sea on a flight from Wangerooge to Hanover . The wreck was found, but it is unclear how many people died, but the machine was photographed on the outbound flight during a stopover in Leer-Papenburg, where you can see that two people were on board. The last contact with the aircraft was 6 minutes after take-off, at 18:26.

Web links

Commons : Cirrus SR20  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The SR20 at the manufacturing company (English)
• Type certification of the SR 20 and SR 22 series - EASA-TCDS-A.007 (PDF, accessed December 5, 2018; 271 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KO Eckland: American airplanes: Ca - Ci. In: AEROFILES. August 15, 2008, accessed October 31, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Craig Hoyle: France receives first Cirrus trainer under 23-aircraft deal. Flightglobal.com, August 23, 2012, accessed August 24, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Cirrus delivers SR20s to the US Air Force Academy. In AIR International, August 2011, p. 13
4. ↑ Cirrus Aircraft, Data Sheet SR20 , Retrieved February 6, 2013
5. ↑ Wilhelmshaven: Small plane missing for a week. In: air2air. May 26, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .