Invites you for a great event!
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Speaker: Dale Klapmeier, CEO Cirrus Aircraft
Date: May 21, 2014 at 6pm
Location: Museum of Flight
Date: May 22, 2014 at 5pm
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Contact:
Anyone interested in overcoming business challenges is welcome to attend but space is limited. Please RSVP to amy@rainierflight.com with the date and number of people attending.
Best regards, Gordon Alvord
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Special Invitation by CEO of Cirrus Aircraft
Date: May 21, 2014 at 6pm
Location: Museum of Flight
Theater Room
9404 East Marginal Way S
Seattle
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Date: May 22, 2014 at 5pm
Location: Microsoft Campus
Studio B/1350 – The Screening Room
15101 NE 40th St.
Redmond
Summary:
Cirrus Aircraft came from humble beginnings in a Baraboo, WI barn in 1984 where Alan and Dale Klapmeier designed and built the first Cirrus. Nineteen years later, the Cirrus SR22 became the best-selling single-engine piston aircraft in the world by pioneering the latest technological advances in manufacturing and safety. Today, Cirrus Aircraft owns the largest market share in the industry, producing aircraft more advanced that most commercial airliners, and the only aircraft certified with a whole airframe parachute as a standard feature, which to date has saved 86 lives.
Success, however, has not come without challenge, frustration, and concern over longevity. As virtually every other industry, aviation has faced formidable challenges over the past 30 years. Government regulation, certification standards, labor shortages, and cash flow challenges have brought many aircraft manufacturers to the brink of bankruptcy. Dale Klapmeier will discuss how the Cirrus team has successfully navigated the company through these turbulent times to become one of the most successful aircraft manufacturers in the world, and how these strategies can relate to other small businesses facing similar challenges.
Cirrus Aircraft came from humble beginnings in a Baraboo, WI barn in 1984 where Alan and Dale Klapmeier designed and built the first Cirrus. Nineteen years later, the Cirrus SR22 became the best-selling single-engine piston aircraft in the world by pioneering the latest technological advances in manufacturing and safety. Today, Cirrus Aircraft owns the largest market share in the industry, producing aircraft more advanced that most commercial airliners, and the only aircraft certified with a whole airframe parachute as a standard feature, which to date has saved 86 lives.
Success, however, has not come without challenge, frustration, and concern over longevity. As virtually every other industry, aviation has faced formidable challenges over the past 30 years. Government regulation, certification standards, labor shortages, and cash flow challenges have brought many aircraft manufacturers to the brink of bankruptcy. Dale Klapmeier will discuss how the Cirrus team has successfully navigated the company through these turbulent times to become one of the most successful aircraft manufacturers in the world, and how these strategies can relate to other small businesses facing similar challenges.
I am really looking forward to this talk not only from a pilot perspective but from a business angle as well. We can all learn so much from the successes and failures of others. And to meet the CEO of Cirrus and have a chance to talk to him? All I can say is wow! I hope you all can make it.
Anyone interested in overcoming business challenges is welcome to attend but space is limited. Please RSVP to amy@rainierflight.com with the date and number of people attending.
Best regards, Gordon Alvord
I'm planning on attending the
Seattle Museum of Flight venue
On the 21st...
(If scheduling doesn't grab me first)
Let me know if you'll be there too.
If you can't make...
What would you like me to ask?
Enjoy the Journey!
Hope to see you on May 21st!
XO Karlene