Both are staffed with 16 to 18 engineers with the objective to hire an additional 100 engineers across all three facilities in 2022. In addition to hiring at the headquarters in Duluth, Minnesota, Cirrus has opened two new Innovation Centers in the past year-McKinney, Texas, north of Dallas and Chandler, Arizona, southwest of Phoenix.
It hired 450 new employees in 2021 and is adding another 400 employees in production, engineering, IT, and training in 2022. Nielsen said the company is about three years into a 10-year goal to triple its size and has already doubled. We just need to make it easy, affordable, and convenient to own and operate a Cirrus.” We believe the market is infinitely larger than the traditional GA market that we play in today. “It means that we are expanding the size of the market. “The fact that 39 percent of all the new orders in 2021 were new to aviation is huge,” Nielsen said.
CIRRUS PLANE SERIES
The company saw an 80 percent increase in net orders per week for SR series products and more than 117 net orders for the Vision Jet in 2021. In 2021, Cirrus built 548 aircraft-86 of which were Vision Jets-versus 420 in 2020. Providing generalized sales and production numbers, Nielsen cited a company backlog of about 700 SR series single-engine piston aircraft and “several hundred” SF50 Vision Jets even as the company increased production in 2021 to build an aircraft every 16 hours.
Demand for personal aviation appears to be at an all-time high, according to Cirrus Aircraft president Zean Nielsen, speaking during the company’s CX 2022 event in Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 11.
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