This aircraft is built with a Continental IO-550-N engine. This six-cylinder engine can fly for 1,050 hours and develop 310 horsepower at 2,700 rpm. It has a maximum rate-of-climb at 1,400 feet-per-minute and a certified maximum operating altitude at 17,500 feet. It is estimated that it uses 17.5 gallons of fuel per hour traveling at 180 knots, at an altitude of 8,000 feet. It has a maximum endurance traveling at 75 percent power of 4.4 hours.
The SR22 is an all-electric airplane with no vacuum system. It has two batteries, a primary system and a secondary system. The secondary system operates the flight instruments and select avionics. Both batteries are kept charged by a 60-amp, 28-volt alternator.
The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) aboard the SR22 has a maximum demonstrated deployment speed of 133 knots. This parachute is supposed to deploy if the airplane is at least 600-feet above the ground surface and in a straight and level flight at the time that it is deployed. It is supposed to allow the plane to touch ground with a computed maximum vertical speed of 27 feet-per-second or 1,620 feet-per-minute.
The craft's propeller is a Hartzell, constant speed, three-blade with a diameter of 78 inches. The plane is 26.0 feet long and 9.2 feet high with a wingspan of 38.5 feet. It has an empty weight of 2,248 lbs. and a maximum takeoff weight of 3,400 lbs.
