Demographics of a *typical* Cirrus owner when cirrus first came on the scene was probably the Agelina Jolie and Brad Pitt types - lots of money, little experience - though giver her her due she did her IR/CPL in a PA28 (in the same aeroplane as me
).....Aeroplanes in the States are a good tax dodge too, and I know of people who buy very expensive aeroplanes, rarely fly them, because the tax man ends up paying for them. Of course to do this you have to be loaded / have a business making so much money and paying so much tax......