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The Cirrus Aircraft Corporation (originally Cirrus Design) is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft. The company headquarters is located in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. As of June 2015, Cirrus had delivered over 6,000 aircraft in 16 years of production. The company is owned by China Aviation Industry General Aircraft (CAIGA), itself owned by Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), which is in turn wholly owned by the Government of the People's Republic of China.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CAIGA website )〕 Cirrus markets several versions of its three certificated models, the SR20, SR22 and SR22T. It was planning to market a light-sport aircraft, the Cirrus SR Sport, but suspended the project in 2009 due to costs and lack of market demand. This has since been cancelled. The Cirrus Vision SF50 single-engine jet is currently under development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Cirrus Vision SF50 )〕 ==Facilities== Cirrus Aircraft has its headquarters and main manufacturing facility in Duluth, Minnesota. An additional manufacturing facility, which produces the composite components for the planes, is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Grand Forks facility is owned by the city of Grand Forks and leased to the company. On 27 December 2007 the company secured a lease for former Northwest Airlines hangar at Duluth International Airport. The building was to be used for construction of its new Cirrus Jet. Cirrus canceled the lease in 2009 during the height of the Great Recession. In February 2015 the City of Duluth had agreed to put up US$6M and had asked the state contribute the remaining US$4M to build a US$10M factory on the Duluth Airport dedicated to the production of SF50 Vision jets. The city would then try to recoup its costs for the facility from lease payments by Cirrus over time. On 6 May 2015 Cirrus announced that it will establish a new facility campus called the "Vision Center" in Knoxville, Tennessee on the city's McGhee Tyson Airport. The facility will focus on all customer interactions including training, maintenance & repair, personalization and deliveries for the Vision Jet and SR-series. The center is slated to open by the middle of 2016. All manufacturing operations were said to remain in Duluth and Grand Forks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cirrus Aircraft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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