Cirrus has broken ground on a new aircraft-delivery centre in Knoxville, Tennessee as it splits customer delivery and service work from its assembly and design operations in Duluth, Minnesota.
The CAIGA-owned general-aviation company plans to launch factory-services work at the $15 million Vision Center at McGhee Tyson airport in the first half of 2016.
A delivery centre is to open in the second half of 2016 for the SR22 and the forthcoming Vision SF50, a single-engined personal jet.
Todd Simmons, president for customer experience at Cirrus, promises the Knoxville facility would raise “customer experience to a level never seen before in general aviation”.
The centre is to provide a complete portfolio of customer-oriented services, including training, service, support, sales, marketing, delivery, personalisation, fixed-base operations and more.
Cirrus would continue to manufacture its composite aircraft structures in Grand Forks, North Dakota and assemble the aircraft in Duluth.
The SF50 is scheduled for receive US certification by the end of this year, with first deliveries planned in the first half of 2016.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
