Models

Transplant a 450 SHP Rolls-Royce turbine onto a stock 206 and, voilá, you have a super Cessna

Diamond’s innovative, four-place Star offers performance and efficiency beyond its price

Twisting through the sky in the first SLSA two-seat aerobat!

FK12 Comet LSA Price: $120,000 (Rotax engine); $135,000 (Lycoming AEIO 233 aerobatic engine) Wingspan (ft.): 22 Empty weight in base configuration (lbs.): 650 Maximum takeoff weight (lbs.): 1190 Length: 18 ft. 5 in. Height: 6 ft. 5 in. Vs (kts.): 35 Vne (kts.): 118 Cruise (75%, kts.): 93 Demonstrated ultimate loads: +14g/-7g Best climb (fpm): […]

Tackling the wilds of Utah in a do-it-all turboprop

Friendly, refined, beefy for rough-field training, yet a cruiser’s delight

BRM Bristell Flastback Base Price: $151, 822 Engine: Rotax 912 ULS Wingspan (ft.): 29.95 Cabin width (in.): 51.17 Fuel capacity (gals.): 34.34 Useful load (lbs.): 614.5 Max takeoff weight (lbs.): 1320 Empty weight (lbs.): 705.5 PERFORMANCE Cruise speed (kts.): 116 Best rate of climb (fpm): 1200 Vso (kts.) 32 Vs (kts.): 39 Vne (kts.): 145 […]

2012 Cirrus SR22 GTS Base price $544,900 Engine make/model Continental TSIO-550-K Turbocharged, 315 hp Propeller Hartzell three-blade composite Gross weight (lbs.) 3400 Empty weight, std. (lbs.) 2375 Useful load, std. (lbs.) 1025 Payload with three-hour fuel + 45-minute reserve (lbs.) 670 Wingspan 38 ft 4 in Overall length (ft.) 26 Overall height 8 ft 11 […]

Why Cirrus Aircraft’s successful single might be the ultimate cross-country machine

There’s a mod for that’€”making the perfect plane, Ron-Corbi style