CIRRUS DESIGN "VK30" - Plane + Pilot

CIRRUS DESIGN “VK30″

Plane & Pilot

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 12:00 AM ET

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Edited By: Omar Filipović

Key Takeaways:

The VK30 was a high-performance, five-seater kit aircraft offered in 1987 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier, who later founded Cirrus Aircraft.
Powered by a 300-hp Continental pusher engine, the VK30 boasted a cruise speed of over 200 mph.
Despite the sale of rights to an Israeli company for certification, the plan never materialized, resulting in only five models ever being built before the kit was discontinued.

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Alan and Dale Klapmeier, progenitors of the Cirrus SR20 and SR22 certified aircraft, offered a kit aircraft in 1987 called the VK30. The five-seater was powered by a 300-hp Continental pusher engine and had a cruise speed of over 200 mph. The Klapmeiers sold the rights to an Israeli company with intentions to certify the design, but the plan never moved forward. The kit is no longer available and only 5 models were ever built