![The Kit Plane](https://cirrusaircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/milestone__0022x.jpg.webp)
The VK-30 celebrated its first flight in 1988 and the company started delivering kits to customers. Demand grew and in 1994 Cirrus Aircraft expanded into a 30,000 square foot R&D facility in Duluth, MN, and shortly after opened a composite production facility in Grand Forks, ND.