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Two people died in the collision of a Cessna Citation CJ and a Cessna 150 at the Marion Indiana Municipal Airport (MZZ) last night about 5 p.m. local time. Marion is located about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis. While the details are still preliminary, the FAA believes the Citation was still rolling out after landing […]

Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Longitude has broken its own distance record, going just beyond the promised 3,500-nm range. During a recent demo tour, the airplane flew from the Seletar Airport in Singapore (XSP) to Sydney, Australia (SYD), a distance of 3,504 nm. The trip was not set up as a record setting flight. The super-midsize […]

The Cessna Citation CJ3 and CJ3+ can now get a boost in performance as Tamarack Aerospace’s ATLAS Active Winglets have achieved the FAA and EASA supplemental type certificate for the C525B series. Tamarack already has STC approval for the C525-series CJs. The performance improvement with the active winglets is impressive. “With ATLAS you can climb […]

It has been almost two years since NetJets took delivery of a Cessna Citation Latitude, which the fractional business jet company used as a demonstrator to showcase the aircraft’s capabilities and potential to customers across the U.S. In June of 2016, NetJets received the first Latitude in a firm order of 25 bizjets, initially with […]

Honeywell has achieved FAA certification for its HTF7700L engine, the model of the highly successful engine family designed specifically for the Cessna Citation Longitude. The certification is a big step toward the certification of the Cessna Citation Longitude, which is powered by two HTF7700L engines. The Longitude is expected to achieve its certification by the […]

Textron Aviation announced in March that the first four production Cessna Citation Longitude business jets were on the assembly line. This week, the company proudly unveiled the first production Longitude, and the emphasis of the company’s celebration has been on how this super-midsize jet was built. “The Citation Longitude sets a new standard in the […]

Earlier this year, Textron Aviation CEO Scott Donnelly told investors that the company would be scaling back on the production of certain legacy aircraft due to a lack of demand. Last week, the scaling down began with the announcement that the final Cessna Citation Mustang had rolled off the assembly line in Wichita, Kansas, and […]

With the FAA’s ADB-S equipage deadline looming, and certainly “not changing,” Cessna Citation CJ3 owners have a solution to meet the mandate and gain even more capabilities. The FAA granted certification to the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics upgrade, and owners of the CJ3 business jet can now have the avionics system installed at […]

Crash investigators are beginning to piece together reports from people on the ground and information gleaned from a flight data recorder recovered from a Cessna Citation I that slammed into an unoccupied home in an Atlanta suburb Friday night. The twinjet crashed about 15 miles north of its destination, Atlanta’s Fulton County Airport, at about […]

On Monday, Textron Aviation announced that the third aircraft in the Cessna Citation Longitude flight test program completed its debut flight, and the company is certainly pleased with the results. Only six months have passed since the first Longitude completed its inaugural flight, but the latest test airplane’s successful one-hour and 40-minute trip aloft is […]