Engineering:Cessna Citation family

Short description: Business jet family

Citation family
A Cessna 525B CJ3 behind a Citation Mustang
Role	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+ CitationJet/CJ series Citation Mustang Citation X Citation Sovereign Citation Latitude Citation Longitude Citation Hemisphere

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

The line started with the small Citation I prototype flying on September 15, 1969, and produced until 1985, 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										1980s										1990s										2000s										2010s
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	6	7	8	9
																																				510 Mustang
	500 Citation I / 501 Citation I/SP																						525 CitationJet/CJ1													CJ1+							M2
																														525A CJ2						CJ2+
																																		525B CJ3										CJ3+
																																								525C CJ4
								550 Citation II																			Bravo
																			560 Citation V					Ultra						Encore							Encore+
																												560XL Excel						XLS					XLS+
													650 Citation III									VI/VII												680 Sovereign									Sovereign+
																																													680A Latitude
																																																700 Longitude
																										750 Citation X																		X+					Hemisphere
Fuselage cross-section:     = Citation I																				= Citation III										= Latitude

Models

Citation I

Model 500 Citation I

Citation II/Bravo

model 550 Citation II

Citation III/IV/VI/VII

Model 650 Citation III

Citation V/Ultra/Encore

This section is an excerpt from Cessna Citation V[ edit ]

CitationJet

Model 525A CitationJet CJ2

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+

Model 750 Citation X

Excel/XLS/XLS+

Model 560XL Citation Excel

Sovereign

Model 680 Citation Sovereign

Mustang

Model 510 Citation Mustang

Latitude

Model 680A Citation Latitude

Longitude

Model 700 Citation Longitude

Current models

Model	Length	Span	Area	Sweep	Inside	Pax.	MTOW	Cruise	Range	Engines	Thrust
525 Citation M2	42 ft 7 in 12.98 m	47 ft 3 in 14.40 m	240 sq ft 22 m2	0 °	58 in 1.5 m	7	10,800 lb 4,900 kg	404 kn 748 km/h	1,540 nmi 2,850 km	2 FJ44-1AP-21	3,930 lbf 17.5 kN
525 Citation CJ3+	51 ft 2 in 15.60 m	53 ft 4 in 16.26 m	294 sq ft 27.3 m2	0 °	58 in 1.5 m	9	13,870 lb 6,290 kg	416 kn 770 km/h	2,040 nmi 3,780 km	2 FJ44-3A	5,640 lbf 25.1 kN
525 Citation CJ4	53 ft 4 in 16.26 m	50 ft 10 in 15.49 m	330 sq ft 31 m2	12.5 °	58 in 1.5 m	10	17,110 lb 7,760 kg	451 kn 835 km/h	2,170 nmi 4,020 km	2 FJ44-4A	7,242 lbf 32.21 kN
560XL Citation XLS+	52 ft 6 in 16.00 m	56 ft 4 in 17.17 m	370 sq ft 34 m2	0 °	68 in 1.7 m	9	20,200 lb 9,200 kg	441 kn 817 km/h	2,100 nmi 3,900 km	2 PW545C	8,238 lbf 36.64 kN
680A Citation Latitude	62 ft 3 in 18.97 m	72 ft 4 in 22.05 m	543 sq ft 50.4 m2	16.3 °	77 in 2.0 m	9	30,800 lb 14,000 kg	446 kn 826 km/h	2,850 nmi 5,280 km	2 PW306D1	11,814 lbf 52.55 kN
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	15,200 lbf 68 kN

See also

Related development

• Cessna Citation I / I/SP
• Cessna Citation II/SII/Bravo
• Cessna Citation III/VI/VII
• Cessna Citation V/Ultra/Encore
• Cessna Citation X
• Cessna Citation Excel/XLS/XLS+
• Cessna CitationJet/CJ series
• Cessna Citation Sovereign
• Cessna Citation Mustang
• Cessna Citation Columbus
• Cessna Citation Longitude

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

• Bombardier Aviation Business jets
• Dassault Falcon
• Embraer Business Jets
• Gulfstream Aerospace

External links

• Cessna Citation home page
• Mike Hamlin (Feb 2010). "40 years of the Cessna Citation". International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations. https://www.iaopa.eu/mediaServlet/storage/gamag/feb10/pp20-24.pdf.