At the National Business Aviation Association Convention in Orlando in September Cessna announced that it will build an all-new very light jet, the Citation Mustang, and will also develop a new Citation, the CJ3, which has a larger cabin and more powerful engines than the wildly successful CJ2.
The Mustang, priced at $2.295 million, is a four-passenger jet that will weigh around 8,000 pounds, cruise at 340 knots and have a ceiling of 41,000 feet. Cessna has not yet made any of the major component supplier decisions, but the engines will likely be either 600- series Pratt & Whitney or FJ33-series Williams turbofans in the 1,500-pound thrust category. The avionics supplier has not been selected either, but Cessna says the cockpit will feature large electronic displays with a standard flight management system (FMS).
