Cirrus Design has upgraded the standard configuration and increased the basic price of its new SR20 light aircraft.
The 5% price increase, to $188,300, reflects improvements to the avionics suite. The standard S-TEC autopilot will be upgraded with a global positioning system (GPS) steering function. This allows the standard Garmin GNS 430 GPS navigation system to drive the autopilot and enables more precise control, Cirrus says. Anew Garmin digital transponder is also introduced.
The price increase is effective immediately on aircraft beyond the 542 Cirrus has already sold, but the upgraded avionics may be made available earlier to customers with aircraft already on order.
The company has delivered 19 SR20s so far, and hopes to ship 100 this year.
Cirrus has also introduced the first of several planned options for the SR20's Arnav ICDS-2000 multifunction display.
This option integrates the BFGoodrich Storm-scope lightning sensor into the large-format display.
Source: Flight International
