The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961), are American retired aircraft designers and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded Cirrus Aircraft, as Cirrus Design Company, in 1984. Under their leadership Cirrus was the first aircraft manufacturer to install a whole-plane parachute recovery system as standard on all its models, a device attributed with saving over 200 lives. The brothers started Cirrus in the basement of their parents' rural dairy barn near Baraboo, Wisconsin, introduced their first design, the VK-30 homebuilt aircraft, in 1987, and were inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Dale remains at Cirrus as a senior advisor and served as its CEO from 2011 to 2019.
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The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961), are American retired aircraft designers and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded Cirrus Aircraft (as Cirrus Design Company) in 1984.
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The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961), are American retired aircraft designers and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded Cirrus Aircraft (as Cirrus Design Company) in 1984.
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The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961), are American retired aircraft designers and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded Cirrus Aircraft (as Cirrus Design Company) in 1984.
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Company CEO Alan Klapmeier announced in October 2008 that due to the economic situation and resulting lack of demand for Cirrus aircraft, the company was moving to a three-day work week.
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