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The flagship CJ just got a whole lot better.

Cessna’s Citation Special Olympics Airlift is set to take off this weekend, the latest in a long series of such airlifts started by Cessna back in 1987. This year the big change is that many of the athletes will be flying in airplanes built by Beechcraft, Cessna’s new sister company under the Textron Aviation banner. […]

The typical personal airplane lacks many creature comforts we’ve come to expect in private transportation. Perhaps foremost among them is air conditioning, but the cabin heat systems also can leave a lot to be desired, especially among piston singles. The primary reason is that the vast majority of these airplanes employ air-cooled engines, unlike the […]

Ten percent of the Cessna Citation Excel/XLS fleet has now been retrofit with the Garmin G5000 integrated flight deck. Garmin also announced engine indication system (EIS) functionality for the Pilatus PC-12/45 and PC-12/47 models. Garmin introduced the G5000 upgrade to the Excel/XLS fleet in 2019. The package includes: three landscape-oriented flight displays with split-screen capability […]

Four people, including the two pilots, were killed Thursday after the business jet they were on board struck a building in Farmington, Connecticut. The Cessna Citation 560X, which was headed to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, crashed around 10 a.m., shortly after takeoff from Robertson Field Airport in Plainville, Connecticut. No one […]

Garmin Aviation has gained EASA approval for updates to the G1000 NXi for the Cessna Citation Mustang, making those upgrades available for both new and existing flight deck installations. The approval follows the initial FAA signoff on the updates in June. Those updates include compatibility with: GWX 75 weather radar GSR 56 datalink weather and […]

As business aviation travel builds in strength on the heels of the pandemic, Textron Aviation announced on July 13 that its largest family member, the Cessna Citation Longitude, has gained certification under EASA, paving the way for deliveries in the EU. In a press release, Textron Aviation vice president of sales for EMEA Tom Perry […]

Think about some of the performance numbers you use to operate your aircraft—climb or descent rates, airspeeds, and so on. In a jet, most of those numbers normally increase, significantly. In a Cessna 172, a descent rate of 3,100 fpm would be frightening to anyone on board, not to mention the nose down angle required […]

On May 27, Garmin Aviation announced additional capabilities it has recently added to the G1000 NXi installations on Cessna Citation Mustang light jets. The upgrades include those to weather radar, enhanced connectivity, and retention of ADS-B In and Out transponder diversity. First, the GWX 75 weather radar system is now approved for use with the […]

Textron Aviation this week announced in a news release the delivery of its 600th aircraft in the Citation CJ family—in this case a CJ3+. The customer for the new jet preferred to remain anonymous. This latest delivery brings the total of all Citations delivered to well more than 5,000 aircraft, as Flying reported in February. […]