Pilot Jeff Ippoliti suspects April 10, 2004, would have been his final day on the planet if it weren't for CAPS, the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System that returned him to the ground unscathed after a ...

May 14—A company with headquarters in Duluth, Minn., and with a large factory in Grand Forks is receiving national recognition in the news after a midair collision near Denver. While one of the two ...

The CAPS is an uncompromising innovation of aircraft safety. This FAA-approved whole-aircraft parachute system can be ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — A plane that collided with another plane near Denver Wednesday deployed a parachute that allowed the two people on board to walk away safely. The plane is a Cirrus SR22 and ...

A Cirrus SR22T, N288WT, on January 27, 2020, crashed in mountainous terrain about five miles northeast of Aspen, Colorado (ASE), not long after takeoff. Both occupants, a couple from Verona, Wisconsin ...

A small plane, out on a training flight, fell in a neighborhood in Bellevue after its engine failed, but was able to land unharmed after the pilot deployed the plane's onboard parachute. The Bellevue ...

DULUTH — Chalk up another first for Cirrus Aircraft. The Duluth-based manufacturer was the first company in the world to build a personal jet standard equipped with a whole-plane parachute. And this ...

A California couple and their two-year-old daughter survived a crash landing in their small plane last week after losing engine power and deploying the aircraft’s parachute to slow their descent into ...

Cirrus today delivered its 11,000th SR Series aircraft, a testament to the company’s innovation, safety, quality and service.

The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) has been deployed 103 times, saving more than 200 people, according to data provided by Cirrus. CAPS has been included in the SR series of aircraft since ...