Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System
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The Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System, or CAPS, is a "ballistic parachute" system created by Cirrus Design with NASA to safely lower a light airplane from an emergency in the air to the ground. A solid-fuel rocket, housed in the aft fuselage, is used to pull the parachute out from its housing and deploy the canopy full within seconds.
The CAPS system is designed into all of the aircraft Cirrus builds - SRV, SR20, and SR22 - and can be retrofitted to a number of common light aircraft, including the ubiquitous Cessna 172.
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