Cut out the shapes and transferred them to cheap plastic foil.Put transparent paper over the stripe and copy the shape with a pencil.We replaced the damaged chrome stripes with new ones cut out from high quality chrome foil (Avery “Diamond Silver”) but it was a lot of work to copy the shape of the original stripe. After trying several tools (and scratching the paint in several places…) I bought a plastic blade on amazon, which worked much better than a steel one, especially in combination with heating up the decals with a hair dryer. The chrome stripes and also the logo on the tail had faded and were also damaged in some parts, so i decided to take them off and replace the chrome parts of the design (only). In 2021 I took the original design to the next change. It just looks nicer and all that stuff costs little money. I mostly use flat black ORACAL car/outdoor foil and I prefer individual letters on a carrier foil and not prints on transparent foil. And today you can simply upload the files to online shops and they make the decals for you. You make photos, take measurements and make them in Photoshop, Illustrator or any similar design app (Corel Draw, InDesign). It is easy to replace these technical decals. Over time I also replaced many of the technical decals on the airplane with higher quality ones: NO PUSH, NO STEP, DO NOT PUSH, and all the small decals on the airplane that have faded over time or were damaged otherwise. Over the years I improved many of the little graphical details: Is started with removing the old fashioned “CIRRUS” logo on the cowling and replacing it with a custom designed “CIRRUS, GENERATION TWO” and the Cirrus logo, similar to what Cirrus used on the G3 model. I always thought the “SR22 GTS” logo on the tail was ugly. First of all i did not care much about the 2006 graphics.

The first change after I bought the airplane was to replace the cowling decalsīut I was never completely happy with the exterior. Over the years I have improved many technical aspects of the plane, including a complete set of new avionics, a new interior, Beringer brakes, the 4-blade prop. By that time the airplane was almost 7 years old and in pretty good condition. I bought my SR22-G2 GTS in the June of 2013.

CIRRUS SR22 GTS interior