"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Jimmy B." wrote:
Last I heard, Cirrus still have the ~5000 hour airframe limitation. Has
this been lifted? Did you ask the Cirrus rep about it?

That's gone, I believe.

I haven't been monitoring the news closely, but it seems to me that they
have extended the 5000 hour limit (to 10000 hours? I forget the exact
number).

Basically, the expectation of the manufacturer is that as the airplane
develops testing history, they will extend the airframe lifetime
appropriately based on the number of hours their testing shows the airframe
to be good for.

So, in other words...the airframe lifetime limit isn't gone, but has been
extended, and may well be extended again.

Keep in mind that aluminum airframes have a lifetime limit too. I don't
know if it's part of the certification (sorry, too lazy to look it up right
now), but they do have their own practical limit.

Pete