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Technically, both the Klapmeiers were in the homebuilt-design business in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but they had a dream to create a new type of certified, production airplane, a model that would offer superior comfort, performance, simplicity as well as reliability on a modern, 21st-century platform, yet would address the most pressing safety concerns of pilots.īoth Dale and Alan Klapmeier designed homebuilt aircraft for starters, and some of those were indeed sophisticated machines. The obvious question when any relatively new model of light aircraft becomes such a runaway success is-why? Anyone who has followed the fortunes of brothers Dale and Alan Klapmeier is aware that Cirrus Design was little more than a blip on general aviation’s radar screen as recently as 10 years ago. When I reviewed and evaluated the experimental prototype Cirrus SR20 in the December 1996 issue under the title “Skyhawk For The 21st Century,” I could hardly have imagined that the title would be so prophetic. No other airplane in the history of general aviation has enjoyed so much instant popularity as the Cirrus SR22. That’s all the more amazing when you consider that: a) the SR22 sells for nearly twice the price of a typical Skyhawk b) the Cirrus model has only been on the market for three years and c) no other manufacturer has ever succeeded in humbling Cessna in this way. In fact, the vast majority of Cirrus’ sales came from its showpiece, the new SR22-G2. For the first two quarters of this year, the total number of Cessna Skyhawks and Skylanes was bested by Cirrus Design’s combination of SR20 as well as SR22 sales. For those of you who haven’t heard, Cessna was just recently dethroned as one of the top-selling general-aviation companies in the world.