The Cirrus SF50 VisionJet is the world's most affordable private jet

Architecture Digest via Fox News ^ | 07/17/2017 | Nick Mafi

[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).

[DFG]

Cirrus Aircraft Corporation is owned by China Aviation Industry General Aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Aircraft

[grobdriver]

Cirrus's SF50 Vision Jet cost $1.96 million

As always, "affordable" is relative.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Cirrus’s SF50 Vision Jet cost $1.96 million”

Hey - a penny saved is a penny earned!

[xp38]

A single jet engine and the whole thing is Chinese. Uh huh.

[deoetdoctrinae]

I believe it comes with a parachute like their prop models.

[Little Ray]

Well you could always go for a jet versio of the BD-5... If you can find one...

[shotgun]

Does it come with their parachute system or is that extra?

[Night Hides Not]

The parachute system is an optional feature, probably adds $5 million to the price tag...lol.

[neverevergiveup]

That's over 1,300 commercial airline tickets at an average price of $1,500. That's just to buy it (without added taxes etc), let alone insurance, upkeep and maintenance, and paying for a pilot (if you don't personally fly). Doesn't seem to make a lot of economic sense, even at that ‘cut-rate’ price.

[grobdriver]

let alone insurance, upkeep and maintenance, and paying for a pilot (if you don't personally fly).

Heh. You forgot fuel...

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

It has a parachute, but unlike the piston powered Cirrus, the parachute is in the nose.

[C210N]

Cirrus's SF50 Vision Jet cost $1.96 million

There was the Eclipse 500 that I believe at one time listed for less than $1.2 mil. Could haul quite a bit more than the BD-5, and about as safe.

[onona]

The comments are priceless !

[CrazyIvan]

Chinese? Can anyone Photoshop a Harbor Freight logo to Harbor Flight?

[Teacher317]

[Haiku Guy]

As always, "affordable" is relative.

You can be in a whole-aircraft-parachute equipped SubSonex for about $100,000. This looks like a whole lot of fun!

[tbpiper]

Look at it this way... if somebody’s going to be grabbing your crotch it’ll be you or your significant other and not the TSA.

[neverevergiveup]

Sad, isn’t it..

[grobdriver]

You can be in a whole-aircraft-parachute equipped SubSonex for about $100,000

Eh.
I'm already in an RV-6 for a lot less, with a reliable engine so I don't need a parachute.

;)