RIP Cirrus

Darkwing wrote:

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...

news.verizon.net writes:


If this had happened 2 or 3 years ago I would agree but not now. Cirrus
has
established themselves very well in the marketplace and there are enough
of
their planes out that now to overcome the long term name of Cessna.

Where does Cirrus build its aircraft?


Wow you don't know this of all things??

Duluth, Minnesota.


Yep and major subassemblies made in a foreign country, Scandinavia. Er,
North Dakota. Whatever.

Newps wrote:
Darkwing wrote:

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...

news.verizon.net writes:


If this had happened 2 or 3 years ago I would agree but not now.
Cirrus has
established themselves very well in the marketplace and there are
enough of
their planes out that now to overcome the long term name of Cessna.

Where does Cirrus build its aircraft?

Wow you don't know this of all things??

Duluth, Minnesota.

Yep and major subassemblies made in a foreign country, Scandinavia. Er,
North Dakota. Whatever.

Isn't this about the point at which the resident xenophobes start
ranting about the company's majority owner being an arm of the First
Islamic Investment Bank of Bahrain?

(Contrary to common belief, BTW, the dominant ancestry in North Dakota
[and Minnesota for that matter] is German, not that of any of the
Scandinavian nations.)