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The Cirrus Vision SF50, also known as the Vision Jet, is a single-engine very light jet designed and produced by Cirrus Aircraft of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. After receiving deposits starting in 2006, Cirrus unveiled an aircraft mock-up on 28 June 2007 and a prototype on 26 June 2008.
The Cirrus Vision SF50 was the first certified single-engine civilian jet and is the most-produced VLJ with 514 deliveries since 2016. A very light jet (VLJ), entry-level jet or personal jet, [1] previously known as a microjet, is a category of small business jets that seat four to eight people. VLJs are considered the lightest business jets ...
While the BD-4 was fairly conventional looking, the Micro was a radical design. It is an extremely small one-seat design that looked more like a jet fighter than a typical general aviation aircraft, with the pilot sitting in a semi-reclined position under a large fighter-like plexiglas canopy only inches above the pilot's head. [4]
The powerplants are Williams International FJ44-2A engines. Its cabin is similar in width to a Citation Excel with 3 in (76 mm) however, with less headroom. Seating is 11.2 ft (3.4 m) long, similar to a CJ2 , with a four-seat club plus two aft chairs and an enclosed, 2.3 ft (0.70 m) long aft lavatory.
Honda began developing its own small turbofan engine, the HF118, in 1999, leading to the HF120. The HF120 was test-flown on a Cessna Citation CJ1. [78] The engine features a single fan, a two-stage compressor and a two-stage turbine. The GE Honda HF120 received FAA type certification on December 13, 2013, [79] and production certification in 2015.
The long-awaited 777X, the world’s largest twin-engine jet, is expected to enter service in 2025, so this concept exists purely on paper for now. But Lufthansa, which will be among the first ...
Eclipse believed the V-Jet II was an ideal design to refine and market because it had been designed around one of the primary VLJ engines, as the VLJ concept has been pursued by other manufacturers. The airframe was redesigned as an all-metal structure with a T-tail and straight wings .
Flaris LAR01, also variously called the LAR 1 and LAR-1, is a Polish five-seat very light jet, currently under development by Metal-Master of Jelenia Góra. [3] It is the only single-engined very light jet currently being developed by a non-American aircraft manufacturer.