Electric tug for the Cirrus Vision Jet

A Vision Jet is no longer a piston single with a bigger engine. The nose gear, the hangar footprint and the number of times it goes in and out in a week all sit in the light-jet class. Owners still often want one person to do the move, without a diesel tug idling inside a closed hangar and without a second pair of hands on the wing. An electric tug for the Cirrus Vision Jet is that job: nose wheel on a deck, electric drive, walking pace, grass or asphalt.

GRAVITY is the walk-behind electric aircraft tug published for light jets and turboprops such as the Cirrus Vision Jet, the Daher TBM series and the Pilatus PC-12. Towing capacity is 5,000 kg as standard, and up to 7,000 kg with the optional upgrade. The drive is 48 V and 1,200 W. An electric winch pulls the nose wheel onto the glass-fiber deck. Attachment webbing with leather protection holds it. Maximum load on the ramp is 750 kg, which is the published figure for hangar thresholds. The tug weighs 170 kg.

There is also a configuration of GRAVITY finished for the ARRIVÉE program: a glass-topped, aircraft-rated deck cut to the Vision Jet's nose wheel, and a carbon tow arm laser-etched with its own serial mark. It is the same tug family, not a separate unrated machine. If you want that deck, say so on the quote. If you want the standard GRAVITY deck, that is the machine the Vision Jet is already named on.

DISCOVERY is not the Vision Jet tug. It is published for single-engine pistons such as the Cirrus SR22, up to 2,500 kg on straight ground. A hangar that keeps an SR22 next to a Vision Jet is a two-tug question, and the ratings are already written that way. ROVER names Cessna and Piper types through light twins. It is remote-controlled and low, at 27 cm, with its own 5,000 kg rating. It is not the page that names the Vision Jet.

CHALLENGER, still coming soon, is aimed at large-cabin business jets and an enclosed ride-on cab. The Vision Jet is the light jet GRAVITY already describes. We are not holding the Vision Jet back for a launch that has not published a towing figure. One person, the electric winch, and a tug that is specified for both grass and asphalt: that is the current answer.

The same GRAVITY rating is what we publish for the Daher TBM and the Pilatus PC-12. If the fleet mixes those types, start with one quote and name each airplane. For a Vision Jet alone, request a quote and tell us whether you want the standard deck or the ARRIVÉE Vision Jet Edition.