The space opened on 19 December 2016, and was expanded on 15 July 2022. The city would then try to recoup its costs for the facility from lease payments by Cirrus over time. In February 2015, Duluth agreed to put up US$6M and asked the state contribute the remaining US$4M to build a US$10M factory on the Duluth Airport dedicated to the production of SF50s. Cirrus invested US$20M into the facility as its flagship 'Innovation Center' to support engineering, design, testing, product development and other technical operations by the company. from 2012 to 2020 ) as it ramps up production, with the city of Duluth selling it to Cirrus in September of that year for just $1 in exchange for 80 additional jobs at an hourly rate of at least $36.05. Louis County approved plans for the company to expand back into the building (formerly used by AAR Corp. Cirrus canceled the lease in 2009 during the height of the Great Recession. The 189,000-square-foot (17,600 m 2) building was to be used for construction of its new Cirrus Jet. On 27 December 2007, the company secured a lease for a hanger formerly owned by Northwest Airlines (who closed the facility in 2005 ) at Duluth International Airport. In the fall of 2002, Cirrus opened an 'aviation incubator' building adjacent to its Duluth headquarters, which it was preparing to buy from the city for US$3.45M in April 2023. The Grand Forks facility was owned by the city of Grand Forks and leased to the company for many years up until November 2020, when Cirrus purchased it for US$1.9M. An additional manufacturing facility, which opened in 1997 and produces the composite components for the planes, is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Since 1994, its headquarters and main manufacturing facilities have been in Duluth, Minnesota. The company's first headquarters was located in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The company now has several facilities in six other states across the US, including its main customer center in Knoxville, Tennessee since 2017.Ĭirrus Aircraft has several operational facilities throughout the United States and Europe.

Facilities Original Cirrus headquarters on the Baraboo–Dells Airport, late 1980s Current headquarters and main manufacturing facilities in Duluth, Minnesota since 1994. Ten years later, the manufacturer was acquired by China Aviation Industry General Aircraft (CAIGA), which is a division of the state-owned AVIC. In 2001, Cirrus sold a majority of the company to Bahrain-based Arcapita. The company produces all of its aircraft with composite materials and is known for pioneering new technologies in the light general aviation aircraft manufacturing industry, including glass cockpits and full-airframe ballistic parachutes. Upon its delivery, the aircraft became the first civilian single-engined jet to enter the market, and is often referred to as a 'personal jet'.

After a return to company growth and United States-based expansion in the 2010s, Cirrus certified and began deliveries of the Vision SF50 very light jet in 2016. Cirrus was planning to market a light-sport aircraft called the SR Sport, but suspended the project in 2009, due to financial challenges and a lack of market demand. Sales of the SR-series grew rapidly during the 2000s, until the economic crisis of 2008. As of April 2023, the company had delivered more than 9,000 SR-aircraft in over 20 years of production, and has been the world's largest producer of piston-powered aircraft since 2013. Ĭirrus markets several versions of its three certificated single-engine light aircraft models: the SR20 (certified in 1998), SR22 (certified in 2000), and SR22T (certified in 2010). The company is owned by a subsidiary of the Chinese government-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), with operational locations in seven states across the US including Minnesota, North Dakota, Tennessee (where its customer headquarters are based), Texas, Arizona, Florida and Michigan, as well as additional sales locations in France and the Netherlands. The Cirrus Design Corporation, doing business as Cirrus Aircraft (formally Cirrus Design), is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft, and is headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)

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