TYPE: Personal jet.

PROGRAMME: Announced 2006. Artist's impressions show prototype registered N570TJ, which reserved in September 2006 by Cirrus Design (manufacturer of SR 20 and SR 22 and known to have light jet under development).

CURRENT VERSIONS: Cruiser Jet: As described.
Sea Jet: Flying boat hull; MTOW 2,721 kg (6,000 lb); max level speed 265 kt (491 km/h; 304 mph) at S/L; M0.6 at FL310; range 1,450 n miles (2,685 km; 1,668 miles).
Military: Basic trainer and light attack jet; hinged, wholly glazed canopy; engines 7.56 kN (1,700 lb st) each. Empty weight 1,383 kg (3,050 lb); MTOW 2,540 kg (5,600 lb); fuel more than 1,326 litres (350 US gallons; 292 Imp gallons).

DESIGN FEATURES: Development of Maverick Leader; heaviest of Maverick family. Mid-mounted, unswept, constant-chord wings with upturned tips; sweptback fin with T-tail; two large ventral strakes. Pod-mounted engines on shoulders of rear fuselage.

FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual.

STRUCTURE: Generally of composites.

LANDING GEAR: Tricycle type; retractable.

POWER PLANT: Two 6.67 kN (1,500 lb st) turbofans. Fuel capacity more than 1,137 litres (300 US gallons; 250 Imp gallons).

ACCOMMODATION: Five persons, comprising two pilots and three on bench seat to rear. Forward hinged door each side. Single-piece windscreen; door window and rear window each side.

SYSTEMS: Autopilot.

EQUIPMENT: Optional ballistic recovery parachute.

DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL:

  • Wing span: 10.97 m (36 ft 0 in)
  • Wing aspect ratio: 8.1
  • Length overall: 9.62 m (31 ft 7 in)

DIMENSIONS, INTERNAL:

  • Cockpit: Length: 2.43 m (8 ft 0 in)
    • Max width: 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in)
    • Max height: 1.17 m (3 ft 10 in)

AREAS:

  • Wings, gross: 14.86 m² (160.0 sq ft)

WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS (estimated):

  • Weight empty: 1,746 kg (3,850 lb)
  • Max baggage weight: 91 kg (200 lb)
  • Max T-O weight: 2,630 kg (5,800 lb)
  • Max wing loading: 177.0 kg/m² (36.25 lb/sq ft)
  • Max power loading: 197 kg/kN (1.93 lb/lb st)

PERFORMANCE (estimated):

  • Never-exceed speed (VNE): 450 kt (833 km/h; 518 mph)
  • Max operating Mach No. at FL310: 0.82
  • Max level speed at S/L: 325 kt (602 km/h; 374 mph)
  • Stalling speed: 69 kt (128 km/h; 80 mph)
  • Max rate of climb at S/L: 1,981 m (6,500 ft)/min
  • Max rate of climb at S/L, OEI: 533 m (1,750 ft)/min
  • T-O run: no flaps: 586 m (1,920 ft)
    • 10° flap: 402 m (1,320 ft)
  • Landing run: 1,295 m (2,450 ft)
  • Range: 1,450 n miles (2,685 km; 1,668 miles)
  • g limits: +4.4/-1.76