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Best bet would be what schools use, so 172 or Piper Warrior. Another alternative is the Diamond DA-20, it has benign slow speed handling, and with a landing speed around 52 kts everything happens so slowly it's easy to correct or go-around. Pretty decent cruise speed and range too, but only seats 2. I have around 1000 hours instructing in those (graduated to the B737NG now) and I never had a student who I couldn't teach to land it. Flew one from Phoenix to London, Ontario in two and a half days. The only challenging thing sometimes is getting it to slow down, and it's VFR only.
The DA-40 is also pretty good although less speed stable and less performant (never knew why they bothered with the 4th seat in those). Cirrus is nice but not an ideal first airplane, it tends to give low hour pilots a little too much confidence.
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