IN-HOUSE STEP-UP: CIRRUS SR TO CIRRUS VISION JET

摘要

In the 1960s and 1970s Beech, Piper and Cessna worked to instill brand loyalty and encourage owners to progressively step up within the product line. More than a few pilots who learned to fly in a Musketeer, Cherokee 140 or Cessna 150 eventually became owners who wound up flying Barons, Aztecs or 400-series Cessnas and in some cases King Airs, Cheyennes or Conquests. Of the three, only Cessna was able to bring a single-pilot jet to market and it never put together any sort of organized program to help owners of its piston-engine aircraft to smoothly graduate to its turboprops or jets. The radical downturn of general aviation in the 1980s would also have put paid to any plans it may have had to do so.