<<If all the work on the
airframe is US, that's still a lot of hours to build one ES from scratch.
  Wonder what the problem is?  I do hope the certified side makes it.>>

My friend is seriously looking at a Cirrus.  I told him to make sure he
looks very closely at a Columbia first.  From a distance they look like
comparable aircraft, but get up close and the Columbia blows it away in
terms of the quality of the details and the fit and finish.  Hope that's
enough to make it survive.

Gary Casey
ES project