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Cirrus SR22
The SR22, by Cirrus Design, is a high-performance single-engine, four-seat, composite aircraft. It is a more powerful version of the Cirrus SR20, with a larger wing, higher fuel capacity, and a 310hp engine. It is extremely popular among purchasers of new aircraft and has been the world's best-selling single-engine, four-seat aircraft for several years. Unlike most other high-performance aircraft, the SR22 has fixed landing gear.
Diamond DA40
The Diamond DA40 is a four seat, single engine, low wing composite aircraft. Built in Ontario, Canada by the Austrian based Diamond Aircraft, the DA40 is one of the new aircraft that has brought modern technologies to general aviation fleets dominated by 50 year old designs.
The DA40 is powered by powered by a 180hp fuel injected Textron Lycoming IO-360 M1A engine.
Cockpit entry for the front seats is through the canopy which raises up from a hinge at the front. Rear seat access is by a single door on the left side.
Control is by dual sticks mounted in the center of each front seat.
Navion
The four place, all metal, low wing Navion is one of several advanced aircraft designed at the end of WWII to take advantage of the imagined post war general aviation boom. The Navion, along with its contemporaries the Cessna 195 and Beechcraft Bonanza were radical departures from the fabric models that dominated flying before the war.
Grob G 103 Twin Astir
The Grob G 103 Twin Astir is a two-seat sailplane developed in Germany in the mid 1970s based on the single-seat standard class Astir CS. Construction throughout is similar, although the wings were given a slight forward sweep (changed to a straight wing in later models).
Cessna 150
With nearly 24,000 manufactured, the two seat, high wing, tricycle gear Cessna 150 has a strong claim as general aviation's most popular trainer.
Manufactured from 1959 to 1977 the 150 was derived from the tailwheel 140, which ceased production in 1951. While most 150's were used in a training role, Cessna marketed Commuter, Commuter II, Patroller, and Aerobat models.
Cessna 150's were produced with the 100hp Continental O-200-A engine. Reims Aviation, a French company, built 1764 F-150's under license with the 130hp Rolls Royce O-240-A engine.
