Cirrus discloses development of new AVIC primary trainer for China

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In June 2020, China’s aerospace industry behemoth, AVIC, announced that a clean-sheet aircraft called the AG100, a three-seat piston trainer, had made its first flight. Chinese state media coverage of the 10-minute event made no mention of Cirrus, which shared earlier this week that the aircraft, now also known as the SR10, had been created by its U.S. based engineers for AVIC.

“It was something that the shareholder contracted Cirrus to do,” Ivy McIver, director of Cirrus’s SR line of piston aircraft, told AvWeb. “It was kind of developed in parallel and the idea for the AG100 was that the Cirrus team would design, develop and get the FAA type certificate and in parallel our shareholder would be developing the AG100. They will now use the SR10 type certificate to achieve CAAC type certification for the AG100 and then sell that in the Chinese market.”

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Jon Ostrower
Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current, where he leads coverage of the global aerospace and aviation industries. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Mr. Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network’s global coverage of the business and operations of aviation. Mr. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and a half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C., he covered Boeing, aviation safety, and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Mr. Ostrower was editor of FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. He is also an instructor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering's Aviation Safety and Security program. Mr. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.
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