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Cessna Citation family

Business jet family

Summary

Business jet family

Field	Value
name	Citation family
image	File:Cessna 525B Citation CJ3 Opera Jet OM-OPA, LUX Luxembourg (Findel), Luxembourg PP1350972612.jpg
caption	A Cessna 525B CJ3 behind a Citation Mustang
type	Business jet
manufacturer	Cessna
first_flight	15 September 1969
introduction	1972
number_built	8,000
variants	Citation I / I/SP
Citation II/SII/Bravo
Citation III-VI-VII
Cessna Citation V/Ultra/Encore
Citation Excel/XLS/XLS+/Ascend
CitationJet/CJ series
Citation Mustang
Citation X
Citation Sovereign
Citation Latitude
Citation Longitude
Citation Hemisphere

Citation II/SII/Bravo Citation III-VI-VII Cessna Citation V/Ultra/Encore Citation Excel/XLS/XLS+/Ascend CitationJet/CJ series Citation Mustang Citation X Citation Sovereign Citation Latitude Citation Longitude Citation Hemisphere

The Cessna Citation is a family of business jets manufactured by Cessna that entered service in 1972. In the fifty years following the type's first flight in 1969, more than 7,500 Citations were delivered, forming the largest business jet fleet in the world. Deliveries reached 8,000 by 2022, while logging over 41 million flight hours.

The line started with the small Citation I prototype flying on 15 September 1969 produced until 1985 and developed into the 1978-2006 Citation II/Bravo, the 1989-2011 Citation V/Ultra/Encore and the CitationJet since 1993. The standup Citation III/VI/VII was delivered from 1983 to 2000; its fuselage was reused in the Citation X/X+ delivered from 1996 to 2018, the Sovereign from 2004 to 2021 and the Excel since 1998. The Mustang was a Very Light Jet delivered from 2006 to 2017 while the flat floor fuselage Latitude has been delivered since 2015 and the larger Longitude from 2019.

The aircraft are named after Citation, a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the American Triple Crown.

Lineage

Citation deliveries timeline
1970s
1


500 Citation I1








1
Fuselage cross-section: = Citation I, = Citation III, = Latitude; projects: 670 Citation IV, Columbus, Hemisphere
Footnotes:1 Early aircraft sold as "Citation" without "I" suffix 2 Replaced by S/II in mid 1984, reintroduced late 1985

Models

Citation I

Main article: Cessna Citation I

Citation II/Bravo

Main article: Cessna Citation II

Citation III/IV/VI/VII

Main article: Cessna Citation III

Citation V/Ultra/Encore

CitationJet/CJ/M2

Main article: Cessna CitationJet

CitationJet (trainer)

Main article: Cessna 526 CitationJet

The Model 526 CitationJet was a twin-engine, two-seat tandem military trainer developed from the Model 525 as a candidate for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System competition (JPATS). The two models share 75% of their parts, including wing, engines, landing gear, and other systems. First flown in December 1993, the 526 did not succeed at the JPATS contest, and only two examples were built in total.

Citation X/X+

Main article: Cessna Citation X

Excel/XLS/XLS+/Ascend

Main article: Cessna Citation Excel

Sovereign

Main article: Cessna Citation Sovereign

Mustang

Main article: Cessna Citation Mustang

Columbus

Main article: Cessna Citation Columbus

Latitude

Main article: Cessna Citation Latitude

Longitude

Main article: Cessna Citation Longitude

Hemisphere

Main article: Cessna Citation Hemisphere

Current models

Model	Length	Span	Area	Sweep	Inside	Pax.	MTOW	Cruise	Range	Engines	Thrust
525 Citation M2	42 ft	{{cvt	47	ft	3	in	m	disp=br}}	240 sqft	0 °	{{cvt	58	in	m	disp=br}}	7	10,800 lb	404 knot	1,540 nmi
525 Citation CJ3+	51 ft	{{cvt	53	ft	4	in	m	disp=br}}	294 sqft	0 °	{{cvt	58	in	m	disp=br}}	9	13,870 lb	416 knot	2,040 nmi
525 Citation CJ4	53 ft	{{cvt	50	ft	10	in	m	disp=br}}	330 sqft	12.5 °	{{cvt	58	in	m	disp=br}}	10	17,110 lb	451 knot	2,170 nmi
560XL Citation XLS+	52 ft	{{cvt	56	ft	4	in	m	disp=br}}	370 sqft	0 °	{{cvt	68	in	m	disp=br}}	9	20,200 lb	441 knot	2,100 nmi
680A Citation Latitude	62 ft	72 ft	543 sqft	16.3 °	{{cvt	77	in	m	disp=br}}	9	30,800 lb	446 knot	2,850 nmi	2 PW306D1
700 Citation Longitude	73 ft 2 in
22.30 m	68 ft 11 in
21.01 m	537 sq ft
49.91 m2	28.6 °	77 in
1.96 m	12	39,500 lb
17,917 kg	476 ktas
882 km/h	3,500 nmi
6,482 km	2 HTF7700L	{{#expr:2*7600}} lbf

References

Notes

References

(27 June 2016). "Cessna delivers milestone 7,000th Citation as NetJets' first Citation Latitude". [[Textron Aviation]].
Kate Sarsfield. (18 Sep 2019). "Cessna marks 50th anniversary of first Citation flight". Flightglobal.
O'Connor, Kate. (15 February 2022). "8,000th Cessna Citation Delivered". AVweb.
Szurovy, Geza. (1999). "Cessna Citation Jets". MBI Publishing Company.
Taylor, Michael J. H.. (1996). "Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory". Brassey's.
"Citation M2".
"Citation CJ3+".
"Citation CJ4".
"Citation XLS+".
"Citation Latitude".
"Citation Longitude".

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