The Cessna Citation is a family of

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s by

Cessna Cessna () is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Originally, it was a brand of the Cessna Aircraft Company, an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing c ...

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 The Cessna 500 Citation I is a small business jet produced by Cessna, the basis of the Citation family. The Fanjet 500 prototype was announced in October 1968, first flew on September 15, 1969, and was certified as the 500 Citation on September ...

prototype flying on September 15, 1969, and produced until 1985, developed into the 1978-2006

Citation II A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of ...

/Bravo, the 1989-2011 Citation V/Ultra/Encore and the CitationJet since 1993. The standup

Citation III The Cessna Citation III is an American business jet produced by Cessna and part of the Citation family. Announced at the October 1976 NBAA convention, the Model 650 made its maiden flight on May 30, 1979, received its type certification on Apri ...

/VI/VII was delivered from 1983 to 2000; its fuselage was reused in the Citation X/X+ delivered from 1996 to 2018, the

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from 2004 to 2021 and the

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since 1998. The

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was a

Very Light Jet A very light jet (VLJ), entry-level jet or personal jet, previously known as a microjet, is a category of small business jets seating four to eight people. VLJs are considered the lightest business jets and are approved for single-pilot operati ...

delivered from 2006 to 2017 while the flat floor fuselage

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has been delivered since 2015 and the larger

Longitude Longitude (, ) is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees and denoted by the Greek letter l ...

from 2019. The aircraft are named after

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, a champion American

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who won the

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Lineage

Models

Citation I

Citation II/Bravo

Citation III/IV/VI/VII

Citation V/Ultra/Encore

N217TH 1996 CESSNA 560 560-0390 (5045025416) (cropped)

CitationJet

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 The Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) was an aircraft procurement program of the United States in the 1990s by the United States Air Force and United States Navy, a merger of 1980s era training aircraft programs. The winner was dec ...

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+

Sovereign

Mustang

Columbus

Latitude

Longitude

Hemisphere

Current Models

References

Notes

External links

Cessna Citation home page
* {{Authority control * United States civil aircraft United States business aircraft Twinjets Low-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1969