Cirrus

[0621 Hertz]

Their sales people have a good reputation around their airshow booths for things like talking to people who don't necessarily look like they can afford an airplane right now (but you never know if they may later). The Textron-owned GA manufacturers have sort of the opposite reputation among civil piston pilots, fairly earned or not...

When I was at Sun n' Fun years ago I talked to the people at the Terrafugia booth and their new "Transition" Car/Plane hybrid.
They were pretty cool and loved talking about it, despite being "sold out" at the time.

Over 10 years later now all of the US employees are laid off and now everything is being moved to China... sad

 

[Meyerkord]

Another update: the kid doing his first solo during while these events were taking place (Cessna N65251) has a YouTube channel called "shrav" and says he's planning on making a debrief video of his perspective.

This was the cut of his solo shirt: