And at a price of $1.96 million, the air gets even more rarified. Part of this is because, well, the SF50, for which Cirrus earned type approval late last year and production approval, impressively, just a few months later, is the only single-engine jet. There’s no airplane that’s a direct competitor, only ones that are possible alternatives. It’s an apt metaphor for the remarkably successful Cirrus Jet, a single-engine, 300-knot 5-7-seat personal jet, that exists in a space all its own. Here in the 20s, not only were we by ourselves-the airliners thousands of feet above us and the pistons thousands below-but we were also apparently the only ones enjoying a smooth ride. Just like the light, we were, as they say, golden, with pilots in other planes at altitudes both below us and above squawking nonstop about the rough rides they were suffering. Up where we were, it was smooth, cruising along at Flight Level 270, Utah’s Painted Desert, swaths of reds, browns and golds panning behind us as we flew.
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