Cessna Citation

FlyExclusive continues to grow with a purchase of 14 Cessna Citation business jets.

Despite overall growth, bizjet travel is slowing as summer ends, according to new data from WingX and FAA.

Honeywell’s TFE731 turbofan helped define the business jet category in the early 1970s.

Getting a Lear to Flight Level 510 before running out of jet-A was a challenge. Nonetheless, I was learning about the benefits (and perils) of high-altitude flight.

A seemingly easy flight from Charlottesville to Tampa proves that there’s no such thing as an easy flight.

At its core, the key to success for the autothrottle that formed the basis for the ThrustSense series from Innovative Solutions & Support was to “design an actuator that was fail-safe—there was no failure, no jamming, and no issues that would cause jamming of the throttle to prevent the pilot from moving the power lever,” […]

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 […]