Our History

from freeflight to vermilion

N147LK was formerly part of the FreeFlight Aviation fleet.

Towards the end of 2012, the owners of the aircraft decided they would prefer a different approach to the FreeFlight model and exercised their right to extract LK in May 2013.

Since 2013, Vermilion's primary purpose was to offer pilots the opportunity to fly this great aircraft at reasonable cost. Along the way we enabled several of our members to gain additional ratings and build hours to step up to turbine powered aircraft.

Blackbushe airport, Camberley, Surrey, UK

What we do

Vermilion Aviation was established to allow pilots the opportunity to fly a technically advanced, high performance, Cirrus SR22.

Owning your own aircraft is an expensive proposition. Renting is fine for a few hours but can be costly and impose restrictions when you want to fly more and far away. Vermilion offers an alternative.

Through equity and non-equity based membership, Vermilion offers sharing of costs with competitive rates in a well managed, maintained and equipped aircraft with excellent availability and few restrictions.

The aircraft is based at Blackbushe airport just off the A30 and very close to the M3.

about our company

Vermilion Aviation Ltd

our aircraft

N147LK is a 2006 Cirrus SR22/GTS. That means she has all the bells and whistles!

Equipped with an Avidyne Entegra glass cockpit, LK boasts dual Garmin GNS430 navigators, S-Tec 55X Auto Pilot, Lightning detector, Traffic and Terrain Awareness systems, Electronic Charts and Approach Plates, Engine Monitoring, Inadvertent Ice Protection and 310 horses under the cowling.

LK is maintained at the highest level, has recently received a zero time engine and prop (July 2018) and boasts Central European avionics data for VFR or IFR flight over most of Europe.

N147LK was the first CIrrus assembled in Europe!