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On Saturday, July 17, a Cessna Citation will touch down every two minutes at Lincoln (Nebraska) Municipal Airport (KLNK). Onboard each jet will be three to seven Special Olympians, along with coaches and sponsors. They will come from all over the country, the average flight lasting between 1.5 and three hours. Approximately 120 Citation operators […]

The first happy customers will be receiving their Cessna Citation CJ4s later this year, following last week’s announcement that the FAA has granted type certification to the latest light jet from Cessna. The $9 million (2010 dollars) CJ4 shares a type rating (including single-pilot operation) with the rest of Cessna’s CJ series. With an NBAA […]

CitationAir (nee CitationShares) is now a wholly owned entity of Cessna Aircraft. The manufacturer recently acquired the final 8 percent of the financial interest. The program began in 2000 as a fractional share company, half owned by Cessna and half by TAG Aviation. In the years since, the program has grown and evolved to include […]

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that you don’t know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out. Well, the tide has gone way out on the fractional jet ownership business, and everyone involved is swimming naked, or at least is down to the skimpiest of Speedos. And that’s why CitationShares has remade its […]

Calling the existing fractional aircraft ownership model “broken,” Cessna has recast and rebranded its CitationShares program. Cessna launched its Northeast-based CitationShares program in 2000 to compete with NetJets, but last week renamed the program CitationAir by Cessna to reflect a new approach better integrating Cessna’s products and services. CitationAir President Steve O’Neill said, “Our customers […]

More than 150 people and 40 Cessna Citations gathered in Aspen, Colorado, over Labor Day weekend. The occasion was the first convention of the Citation Jet Pilots Association, primarily representing owner-pilots of Cessna’s line of business jets. John Hayes, who heads the group he founded nearly one year ago, said the event was an opportunity […]

A Cessna Citation I that crashed on takeoff on March 4, 2008 was brought down by large birds, according to findings by the National Transportation Safety Board. Birdstrikes were apparently suspected when the preliminary report was written days after the accident, which killed both pilots and three passengers on departure from Wiley Post Airport in […]

A Cessna Citation I that crashed on takeoff on March 4, 2008 was brought down by large birds, according to findings by the National Transportation Safety Board. Birdstrikes were apparently suspected when the preliminary report was written days after the accident, which killed both pilots and three passengers on departure from Wiley Post Airport in […]

Uvalde, Texas, seems like a strange place for a world-class business jet re-engining company to call home. Located 70 miles west of San Antonio in a part of Texas better known for deer hunting and off-road racing than for high technology, Sierra Industries is way off the beaten path, unless you fly a bizjet, that […]

At a recent dinner gathering, a few days after the wonderfully well-omened US Airways ditching in the Hudson, when several guests had been grilling me about bird strikes and ditching procedures, someone commented that her worst nightmare was being in an airplane when the pilot had a heart attack. “How often,” another guest asked me, […]