![Birth of an Icon](https://cirrusaircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/milestone__0062x.jpg.webp)
In 2000, Cirrus received a Type Certificate for a composite piston aircraft with a larger wing, larger fuel capacity and more powerful engine – the SR22. Just two years later in 2002, the SR22 became the world’s best-selling general aviation airplane for the first time, and has continued to hold that distinction every year since.