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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 […]

Textron Aviation announced this week that it has achieved steep approach certification for two of its Cessna Citation products — the Sovereign+ and Latitude. Both the FAA and EASA have signed off on the certification, which allows the midsize jets to fly approaches as steep as 6.65 degrees. A typical approach path angle is 3 […]

Divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder, pieces of aircraft debris and human remains from a Cessna Citation that disappeared over Lake Erie on the evening of December 29. The twinjet had been headed for the Ohio State University Airport from Cleveland when it disappeared from the radar about 2 miles over Lake Erie after […]

Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude will make its show debut at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association conference in Dubai this week, alongside the Cessna Grand Caravan EX and the Beechcraft King Air 350i turboprops. Textron’s top-selling midsize business jet, the Citation Latitude has amassed more than 12,000 fleet hours in just […]

With the ADS-B mandate quickly approaching, Textron Aviation announced that its service centers are offering ADS-B retrofits for an expanding number of models. The manufacturer announced this week that it recently achieved certification for an ADS-B Out solution for the Cessna Citation Mustang. Earlier this year Textron Aviation issued 10 service bulletins for ADS-B equipment […]

The list of aircraft eligible for Garmin’s integrated flight deck upgrade just got a little longer today when the company added the Cessna Citation Excel and XLS. Garmin estimates replacing the airplane’s original avionics will shave 200 pounds off a Citation, translating into additional baggage or fuel capacity. The G5000 flight deck features three high-resolution […]

Textron Aviation began the week on uplifting news of Saturday’s successful 2-hour and 2-minute first flight of the company’s new Longitude super midsize business jet. The Longitude, announced four and a half years ago and unveiled at last year’s NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, departed Beech Field on the east side of Wichita, with experimental […]

The first flight of what will be Cessna’s largest business jet is just weeks away, the manufacturer says. Cessna this week successfully completed ground engine tests on the Citation Longitude’s Honeywell HTF7700L turbofan engines. “The engine run tests are one of the final major milestones as we prepare for first flight,” said Textron president and […]

FlightSafety International has added a new Cessna Citation Latitude level-D flight simulator to its facility in the company’s Learning Center in Columbus, Ohio. This simulator is FlightSafety’s second Latitude sim, the first having been added in the company’s facility near the Cessna Aircraft headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. In addition to the level-D simulator qualification, the […]

Cessna Aircraft Co. handed over the keys to a milestone Citation jet, the 7,000th one delivered by the Wichita, Kansas-based company. At a ceremony at the factory, Textron Aviation celebrated with the new owner of the recently certified Citation Latitude, NetJets. The fractional ownership company in turn responded with an extension of its already sizable […]