Cirrus's 2026 North America price list puts a new SR20 at $694,900, or $754,900 for the Premium. The newest used airplanes ask almost that much: the median G7 SR20 in our sample asks $667,500. At the other end, an SR20 listed without a generation asks a median of $212,000.
The family is 1,629 aircraft on the FAA register, and 56.0% of them are registered to LLCs. The build history has a dip in the middle: 565 aircraft from the 2000s, only 268 from the 2010s and 663 from the 2020s so far. A used SR20 is a depreciation curve with a model-year ladder on it, and the ladder is steep.
What follows walks down the price curve, then looks at what the FAA says the airplane is, who owns the fleet, what it costs to run and what the NTSB accident files record. Every figure comes from a named public source or a dated sample, and the sources are listed at the end.
Data used: FAA fleet through 2026-10-12; NTSB file through 2026-09-30; asking-price sample 2026-10-14.
What a new SR20 costs, and what that number means
Cirrus's 2026 North America price list puts the SR20 at $694,900 and the SR20 Premium at $754,900. The Premium figure is a complete price for the better-equipped airplane, $60,000 above the standard one. Both are the maker's list prices, before the options, avionics choices and dealer terms that move a real quote.
The FAA's type certificate data sheet gives the SR20 4 seats, a maximum takeoff weight of 2,900 lb for the base airplane and 56 US gal of usable fuel. It lists two engines. One is a 200 hp Continental IO-360-ES, the other a 215 hp Lycoming IO-390-C3B6. The sheet ties them to serial-number ranges, and no model year on this page picks one for you, so ask which engine a particular airplane has.
The price ladder runs one generation at a time
We gathered 112 Cirrus SR20 listings from one marketplace on 14 October 2026, and 107 of them carried a usable asking price. Sellers label the airplane by generation, from G2 to G7, and the medians sort the family cleanly by it.
The gold bar is Cirrus's 2026 price for a new SR20. Teal bars are medians of asking prices. Groups with fewer than 5 priced listings are left out.
The slope is steady. The median G6 asks $477,000, 69% of a new SR20's price. The G3 asks $324,500, 47%, and an SR20 listed with no generation asks $212,000, 31%. At the top, the G7 asks $667,500 on 14 listings, 96% of the new price. A nearly new SR20 saves about $27,400 against the list price in this sample, which is not much for an airplane that has lost its new-airplane status.
The median G7 SR20 in our sample has flown 360 hours. The median G3 has flown 2,981.
Airframe hours fall as the generations rise from the G3 to the G7, from 2,981 to 1,172 to 360. The two oldest labels break the pattern: the G2 median is only 1,435, below the G3, and the earliest airplanes show 2,071. They are airframe hours, not engine hours, and the listings do not say how the engine has fared.
One group is too small for a median. The newest label, G7+, has 4 priced listings, which ask from $740,000 to $830,000. That is above the new SR20 price, and the sample cannot say why. Avionics, options and a seller's optimism all move an asking price, and it records none of them.
One caution covers this whole section. It is one marketplace on one day, with 107 priced listings after we set aside 5 with no price. The labels are the sellers' own, and a bare SR20 label with no generation covers early airplanes from several years. These are asking prices, not sales, and no individual listing is published. Prices were recorded to the nearest 1,000 dollars.
For the wider market, our guide to what a small plane costs puts the SR20 in context. Cirrus also builds a bigger, faster piston single, covered in what a Cirrus SR22 and SR22T cost, and a jet, covered in what a Cirrus Vision Jet costs. The maker as a whole is covered in what Cirrus aircraft cost.
Show the asking-price table
| Model or band | Listings | Asking median (USD) | Asking range (USD) | Median total time (hours) | Sample years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR20, generation not stated | 15 | $212,000 | $146,000 to $290,000 | 2,071 | 2000 to 2004 |
| SR20 G2 | 13 | $275,000 | $210,000 to $291,000 | 1,435 | 2004 to 2007 |
| SR20 G3 | 22 | $324,500 | $239,000 to $389,000 | 2,981 | 2007 to 2016 |
| SR20 G6 | 39 | $477,000 | $375,000 to $590,000 | 1,172 | 2017 to 2023 |
| SR20 G7 | 14 | $667,500 | $600,000 to $730,000 | 360 | 2024 to 2025 |
| SR20 G7+ | 4 | Range only | $740,000 to $830,000 | Not shown | 2025 to 2026 |
One airplane, two engines
The FAA's type certificate data sheet covers the SR20 from 1998, and the sheet is shared with the SR22 and SR22T. Where the sheet gives one number for the base airplane, it also records later serial ranges with different limits, so the figures below are the base figures, not a ceiling. For where the SR20 sits among the rest, the guide to the main types of planes helps.
- 200 hp, Continental IO-360-ES
- 2,900 lb maximum takeoff weight
- 56 US gal usable fuel
- 215 hp, Lycoming IO-390-C3B6
- 3,150 lb greatest takeoff weight the sheet lists for any SR20 serial range
- Serial-number ranges set which engine applies
If you are weighing an SR20 against a Cessna, the closest comparison on this site is what a Cessna 172 Skyhawk costs, the airplane most people learn on, and the bigger Cessna 182 Skylane.
Show the full model comparison table
| Model and approval year | Certified specification | Ownership context |
|---|---|---|
| SR20Approved: 1998 FAA sheet | Continental IO-360-ES 200 hpMaximum takeoff weight: 2,900 lbFuel, total / usable: 60.5 US gal / 56 US galSeating: 4 seats | Registered: 1,629 all registrations; 1,548 valid (status V)Asking median: $212,000Primary engine TBO: No applicable primary schedule retrieved |
A fleet with a dip in the middle, owned by LLCs
The FAA register lists 1,629 aircraft in the SR20 family, and 1,548 of them (95.0%) hold a valid registration, while 81 carry another status. Of the whole family, 1,500 records have a usable build year, and 1,469 of those are valid. That counts paperwork, not airplanes in the air: a valid registration says nothing about whether the aircraft is airworthy or flying.
- 41990s
- 5652000s
- 2682010s
- 6632020s
129 records have a blank or invalid build year and are left out of the chart.
44.2% of the registered SR20 aircraft with a usable build year were built in the 2020s.
The 2020s are the biggest decade on the register, with 663 aircraft against 565 for the 2000s and just 268 for the 2010s, so the 2020s outnumber the 2010s by 395. The register shows the dip. It cannot show the reason, and we do not guess one.
LLCs hold 56.0% of the register, 912 aircraft, which is far more than any other owner type. Individuals hold 13.0% and corporations 12.0%. Government owners hold 7.2%, 118 aircraft, and non-citizen corporations 6.8%. Co-owned aircraft hold 4.7%. The registry records the owner category, not how the airplane is used, and the FAA legend does not say which agency a government registration belongs to.
Florida (9.1%), California (7.9%), Arizona (7.2%) and Texas (7.2%) lead the state table, with Minnesota fifth at 6.9%. Delaware has 54 registrations (3.3%), which with LLCs so dominant is a registration-address effect: LLC and trust registrations can carry a Delaware address. It says nothing about where those aircraft fly.
Download the fleet CSV by model and build year. Free to use, please link back. It counts all registrations and valid ones (status V) by model label and build year, including blank years, and contains no personal records.
Show the fleet tables
| Group | All registrations | Valid (status V) | Share of all registrations |
|---|---|---|---|
| SR20 registry designation | 1,629 | 1,548 | 100.0% |
| Model label | All registrations | Valid (status V) |
|---|---|---|
| SR20 | 1,629 | 1,548 |
| Build decade | All registrations | Share of known years | Valid (status V) | Valid share of known years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | 0.3% | 4 | 0.3% |
| 2000s | 565 | 37.7% | 561 | 38.2% |
| 2010s | 268 | 17.9% | 266 | 18.1% |
| 2020s | 663 | 44.2% | 638 | 43.4% |
| FAA code | Registrant type | All registrations | Valid (status V) | Share of all registrations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Individual | 212 | 203 | 13.0% |
| 2 | Partnership | 5 | 5 | 0.3% |
| 3 | Corporation | 195 | 195 | 12.0% |
| 4 | Co-Owned | 76 | 76 | 4.7% |
| 5 | Government | 118 | 118 | 7.2% |
| 7 | LLC | 912 | 912 | 56.0% |
| 8 | Non Citizen Corporation | 111 | 39 | 6.8% |
| 9 | Non Citizen Co-Owned | 0 | 0 | No records |
| State | All registrations | Valid (status V) | Share of all registrations |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 149 | 148 | 9.1% |
| CA | 128 | 127 | 7.9% |
| AZ | 118 | 118 | 7.2% |
| TX | 117 | 117 | 7.2% |
| MN | 113 | 39 | 6.9% |
| MI | 70 | 70 | 4.3% |
| OK | 55 | 55 | 3.4% |
| DE | 54 | 54 | 3.3% |
| NY | 48 | 48 | 2.9% |
| GA | 46 | 46 | 2.8% |
Show every exact FAA model label
| Model label | All registrations | Valid (status V) |
|---|---|---|
| SR20 | 1,629 | 1,548 |
| Total | 1,629 | 1,548 |
The list price is only the entry fee
After the purchase the airplane wants fuel, an engine fund, an annual inspection, insurance and somewhere to sleep. Only some of those have a published number worth printing.
Fuel
Plane and Pilot's specification table for the 1999 SR20 gives 10.4 US gal/hour at 75 percent power and 9.4 US gal/hour at 65 percent. That is one SR20 from one model year, not the whole family, so the calculator leaves fuel burn for you to fill in. A full 56 US gal tank at the higher burn is about 5.4 hours of flying before reserves.
Turn the burn into money with your own fuel price. At an example $6.00 a gallon, the 1999 SR20 burns $62.40 of fuel an hour at 75 percent power. At $9.00 it is $93.60. Those prices are examples chosen to show the arithmetic, not market data.
The engine
Lycoming's service instruction lists the IO-390-C3B6 at 2,600 hours for a factory new or rebuilt engine and 2,000 hours after an overhaul, or 12 calendar years, with conditions attached. Continental's current overhaul schedule for the IO-360-ES sits behind an account login we could not use, so we publish no interval for it. Ask the shop that would do the work. The engine is the line item that arrives all at once.
The rest
The FAA describes an annual inspection interval of 12 calendar months for ordinary US personal aircraft ownership. Insurance, hangar or tie-down fees, labour rates and loan terms depend too much on the owner, the airfield and the airplane for one published number to mean anything, so this page prints none. Add your own quotes to the fuel figures above and you have a budget that belongs to you. More on the wider costs of owning an aircraft sits in our ownership section.
Renting is the benchmark your own figure has to justify. Our guide to how much it costs to rent a Cessna 172 shows the other side of the ledger for a smaller airplane.
Show the fuel tables
| Model year | Power setting | Fuel burn | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 SR20 | 75 percent power | 10.4 US gal/hour | Plane and Pilot spec table; retrieved 2026-10-14 |
| 1999 SR20 | 65 percent power | 9.4 US gal/hour | Plane and Pilot spec table; retrieved 2026-10-14 |
| Model year and power | $5.00/gal | $6.00/gal | $7.00/gal | $8.00/gal | $9.00/gal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 SR20 75 percent | $5.00/gal: $52.00 | $6.00/gal: $62.40 | $7.00/gal: $72.80 | $8.00/gal: $83.20 | $9.00/gal: $93.60 |
| 1999 SR20 65 percent | $5.00/gal: $47.00 | $6.00/gal: $56.40 | $7.00/gal: $65.80 | $8.00/gal: $75.20 | $9.00/gal: $84.60 |
What the accident files record
Every entry in the NTSB files is a real event, and the counts are all this page claims to know about them. The NTSB lists 136 accidents involving SR20-family aircraft from 2000 through 2025. Of those, 44, or 32.4%, were fatal, and 87 people died in them.
- 2000
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2020
- 12
- 92025
Counts only. The NTSB does not record how many hours the family flew, so these bars are not rates.
The yearly count runs from 2 in 2001 to 12 in 2024, the highest in the file, and 9 in 2025. The fleet grew to 1,629 aircraft over those years, and the data holds no flying hours to divide by, so a rising count is not a measure of risk. The NTSB's most recent records can also be preliminary.
The first coded phase is the one attached to the first event in the NTSB's sequence for each accident. Accidents without a coded sequence, or with unmapped codes, sit in separate rows of the full table.
Landing begins 29.4% of the accidents, with approach at 19.9% and enroute at 16.2%. Landing and approach together begin 49.3% of them. The data cannot say why, and the files do not record how each airplane was being used.
The NTSB's own findings point at people and machines together. Of the 91 accidents with causal findings in its current coding, 80.2% involve personnel issues and 78.0% involve aircraft issues. An accident can carry several findings, so the shares overlap and do not add up to the whole.
Show the NTSB tables
| Year | Accidents | Fatal accidents |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 |
| 2006 | 7 | 3 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3 |
| 2008 | 4 | 0 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3 |
| 2010 | 7 | 2 |
| 2011 | 10 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 | 2 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2 | 1 |
| 2016 | 9 | 4 |
| 2017 | 6 | 2 |
| 2018 | 7 | 1 |
| 2019 | 7 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 |
| 2023 | 8 | 4 |
| 2024 | 12 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 |
| Phase of flight | Accidents | Share of all accidents |
|---|---|---|
| Landing | 40 | 29.4% |
| Approach | 27 | 19.9% |
| Enroute | 22 | 16.2% |
| Maneuvering | 12 | 8.8% |
| Initial Climb | 8 | 5.9% |
| Takeoff | 7 | 5.1% |
| Cruise | 5 | 3.7% |
| Prior to Flight | 2 | 1.5% |
| Taxi | 2 | 1.5% |
| Other, unknown or not coded | 11 | 8.1% |
| Total | 136 | 100.0% |
| Group | Accidents | Share of all | Share of coded subset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft | 71 | 52.2% | 78.0% |
| Personnel issues | 73 | 53.7% | 80.2% |
| Environmental issues | 20 | 14.7% | 22.0% |
| Organizational issues | 1 | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Group | Accidents | Share of all | Share of coded subset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft/Environment | 13 | 9.6% | 65.0% |
| Human Performance | 18 | 13.2% | 90.0% |
| Direct Underlying Factors | 4 | 2.9% | 20.0% |
| Manufacture band | Accidents | Share of all |
|---|---|---|
| Year of manufacture 1998 to 2025 | 65 | 47.8% |
| Unknown year of manufacture | 71 | 52.2% |
| Family aircraft in different manufacture-year bands | 0 | 0.0% |
What to take from the numbers
- Buy a generation, not a model name. In our sample the median ask climbs from $212,000 for an SR20 with no generation stated to $667,500 for the G7, with the G3 at $324,500 and the G6 at $477,000.
- A nearly new SR20 barely undercuts a new one. The G7 median is 96% of the $694,900 list price, a gap of about $27,400. Price a new one before you decide.
- Treat an asking price as an opening line. These are what sellers want. The sample cannot see what buyers pay.
- Ask which engine it has, and its time since overhaul. The FAA lists a Continental and a Lycoming for the SR20, and the airframe medians in our sample run from 360 to 2,981 hours. The engine's own history is a separate number.
- Do not read a valid registration as a clean bill of health. Status V is paperwork, not an inspection.
- Budget with your own quotes. At 10.4 US gal/hour and an example $6.00 a gallon, a 1999 SR20 burns $62.40 of fuel an hour, before the engine fund, the annual inspection, insurance and storage.
Questions buyers ask
How much does a new Cirrus SR20 cost?
Cirrus's 2026 North America price list puts the SR20 at $694,900 and the SR20 Premium at $754,900. Real quotes vary with options and dealer terms.
How much does a used Cirrus SR20 cost?
In a one-day sample of asking prices on Controller.com, the median ask was $212,000 for an SR20 with no generation stated, $324,500 for a G3, $477,000 for a G6 and $667,500 for a G7. Those are asking prices, not sales.
How much does the SR20 burn per hour?
Plane and Pilot gives 10.4 US gal/hour at 75 percent power for a 1999 SR20, which is $62.40 an hour at an example $6.00 a gallon. Engine reserve, insurance, storage and inspections come on top, so price them with your own quotes.
How many Cirrus SR20 aircraft are there?
The FAA register lists 1,629 aircraft in the SR20 family, 1,548 with a valid registration.
How many Cirrus SR20 accidents has the NTSB recorded?
The NTSB files hold 136 accidents from 2000 through 2025, 44 of them fatal. These are counts, not rates, because flying hours by model are not published.
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Sources and how the numbers were made
Data through: FAA 2026-10-12; NTSB 2026-09-30; asking sample 2026-10-14.
How the numbers were made: We counted matching FAA registrations and showed valid registrations (status V) separately. We combined the NTSB files, counted each accident once and excluded incidents. Used prices are summaries of advertised prices. Fuel cost examples multiply published fuel burn by example fuel prices.
Privacy: No personal data is used in the published results. No owner, seller, crew, operator, narrative or individual accident record is published.
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- Federal Aviation Administration. Type Certificate Data Sheet No. A00009CH. Retrieved 2026-10-14. The FAA sheet supplies certified approval dates, engines, power, weights, fuel capacities and seating for the covered models.
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- Controller.com. Cirrus SR20 aircraft for sale. Retrieved 2026-10-14. The advertised prices supply model medians, ranges and airframe hours for the dated sample.
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