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 prototype Citation I (initially called FanJet 500 and sold as Cessna 500 Citation) 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 stand-up cabin height 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. The flat-floor cabin Latitude has been manufactured 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 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 510 Mustang 525 CitationJet/CJ1 CJ1+ M2 M2 Gen2 500 Citation I1 525A CJ2 CJ2+ 501 Citation I/SP 525B CJ3 CJ3+ CJ3 Gen2 550 Citation II2 / 551 Citation II/SP 525C CJ4 CJ4 Gen2 S550 Citation S/II 550 Bravo 560 Citation V Ultra Encore Encore+ 560XL Excel XLS XLS+ Ascend 650 Citation III VI/VII 680 Sovereign Sovereign+ 680A Latitude 750 Citation X X+ 700 Longitude 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 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
Citation II/Bravo
Citation III/IV/VI/VII
Citation V/Ultra/Encore
CitationJet/CJ/M2
CitationJet (trainer)
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+
Excel/XLS/XLS+/Ascend
Sovereign
Mustang
Columbus
Latitude
Longitude
Hemisphere
Current models Model Length Span Area Sweep Inside Pax. MTOW Cruise Range Engines Thrust 525 Citation M2 0 ° 7 2 FJ44-1AP-21 525 Citation CJ3+ 0 ° 9 2 FJ44-3A 525 Citation CJ4 12.5 ° 10 2 FJ44-4A 560XL Citation XLS+ 0 ° 9 2 PW545C 680A Citation Latitude 16.3 ° 9 2 PW306D1 700 Citation Longitude 73 ft 2 in22.30 m 68 ft 11 in21.01 m 537 sq ft49.91 m2 28.6 ° 77 in1.96 m 12 39,500 lb17,917 kg 476 ktas882 km/h 3,500 nmi6,482 km 2 HTF7700L
See also
References
Notes
External links
Cessna Citation home page