Textron ends TTx production. Very sad, but it was always an odd duck in the Cessna lineup. Lack of parachute didn’t help. Seemed like a great performer – better than the Cirrus.
I did wonder what the sales were recently…
That’s sad to hear. The TTx was quite high on my list of airplanes I can never afford :-(
Don’t understand why Cessna just didn’t beef up the inner structure a bit and made the TTx pressurized and added a chute. It would have been the only 4-place certified pressurized tourer. Couldn’t have cost that much to do. Instead they went head on with Cirrus in an almost identical airframe – and lost.
Maybe they wanted to appeal to those pilots who would never buy a plane with a chute 
It is after all a topic which generates more GB of religious forum bandwidth than anything else.
I suspect pressurisation is a lot harder to do as a “retrofit”. The pressurised Lancair Evolution came to an end recently, reportedly with a front window departing one aircraft in flight being one of the nails in the coffin. The build quality of the Cessna 400 (I flew in one) was the best I have seen on any piston aircraft however.
Peter wrote:
appeal to those pilots who never buy a plane with a chute
Which, in this segment, are very clearly outnumbered by those who do by about 9:1 (SR22 vs TTX sales in 2016), or 4:1 if you only count turbo versions.
The ‘funny’ thing is that Cessna already had a great pressurized tourer – the P210. A friend of mine has one and it’s a delight to fly and travel in. But they killed that one off years ago….
As for chute – seriously, I don’t think you can sell any new SEP without one anymore.
I suppose that she had no shute was her undoing. She was much more advanced in many regards than the Cirrus line up.
Peter wrote:
The build quality of the Cessna 400 (I flew in one) was the best I have seen on any piston aircraft however.
What year model was it ?
The best were those built in Lancair’s original factory in Bend Orgeon.
Indeed, the build quality on the Lancair Columbia / TTx is the best there is in SEPs.
Ask me how I know !
This one
It is obvious that once the family discovered that there is a plane with a chute, and given the GA pilot demographic and diet and the incidence of coronary heart disease etc etc, one could not even give a plane away (at this price and mission profile level) unless it had a chute.
