Cirrus Aircraft · SF50
Cirrus Vision Jet
Single-engine personal jet
The default. A 3,192-foot balanced field gets it into the airport beside the plant rather than the one forty minutes away, and it carries a whole-airframe parachute — the only jet in production that does.
Trade-off. The slowest of the two jets. On a 500 nm day the HondaJet buys you an extra half hour on the ground for the same money.
- Seats sold
- 4
- Baggage
- 30 lb a head
- Planning range
- 1,000 nm
- Balanced field
- 3,192 ft
- Hold volume
- 32 cu ft
- Whole-airframe parachute (CAPS) — the only jet in production with one
- Safe Return emergency autoland any passenger can press
- Gets into the shortest jet-capable fields on the network
Full Vision Jet detail — specifications, safety systems and cost
Honda Aircraft Company · HA-420
HondaJet Elite II
Twin-engine very light jet
The fast one, and at a flat rate that speed is free — 422 knots takes a real bite out of a 500 nm leg, and on a day trip every minute saved in the air is a minute added on the ground.
Trade-off. Needs 3,990 feet of runway, so a handful of the close-in fields on this network are out. It is also the aircraft we are least likely to have free at short notice.
- Seats sold
- 4
- Baggage
- 30 lb a head
- Planning range
- 1,200 nm
- Balanced field
- 3,990 ft
- Hold volume
- 66 cu ft
- 422 KTAS — fastest in the fleet by a wide margin
- Quietest cabin of the three
- The extra speed costs nothing under a flat rate
Pilatus Aircraft · PC-12
Pilatus PC-12 NGX
Single-engine turboprop
The one with a cargo door and the shortest field requirement of the three — it will use runways neither jet can. Also the roomiest, since we sell four seats in a cabin built for eight.
Trade-off. A turboprop, so it is the slowest and the cabin is louder than either jet at cruise. On a long day that difference is felt.
- Seats sold
- 4
- Baggage
- 30 lb a head
- Planning range
- 1,400 nm
- Balanced field
- 2,650 ft
- Hold volume
- 40 cu ft
- A cargo door, and four seats in a cabin built for eight
- 2,650-foot balanced field — the shortest in the fleet
- Carries tooling and displays a jet cabin will not take
One rate, three aircraft
One product, three airframes
The same arrangement a rental counter uses. Four seats and 30 lb of baggage a head on every aircraft, at $3,200.00 a block hour, and you get whichever is free on your date. The PC-12 will seat eight and we still sell four, precisely so the swap is invisible to you.
We do not let you pick, because picking would create an expectation we would then have to break. An aircraft goes tech on a Tuesday morning far more often than anyone admits; when it does, another one takes your trip and nothing about the booking changes.
The price is the trip, not the airframe. Block time is quoted on a fleet planning speed of 290 knots — the slowest aircraft on the sheet — so the number does not move when we substitute. If the aircraft you picked goes tech on the morning, another one takes the trip at the price you already agreed.
The only thing that rules one out is the runway. The HondaJet needs 3,990 ft, so at the shortest fields on the network you will get one of the other two — and the quote says so before you book rather than after.
Prototype figure, not contracted operator pricing.
