Cessna Citation

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 […]

Garmin International on March 16 said in a news release that its G5000 integrated flight deck for Textron Aviation’s Citation Excel and Citation XLS is now certified for future air navigation system (FANS-1/A+) and aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) compatibility. The new navigation capabilities open the door for these venerable aircraft to take […]

A trio of former Cessna Aircraft Company executives has joined forces to launch a program to rehabilitate and upgrade legacy Cessna Citation Excel jets, first certified in April 1998 and precursors to the Citation XLS that debuted in 2004. The group, CitationPartners LLC, based in Wichita, Kansas, has christened the refurbished mid-sized jets “Citation Excel […]

On January 4, Columbia Avionics & Aircraft Services announced that it has been awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) for the Cessna Citation 525 series, for installation of the Garmin Avionics Modernization Package, which includes the G600 TXi EFIS and GFC 600 autopilot, among a host of flight deck components. The package is aimed at […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a Cessna Citation 560—N3RB—that crashed on January 9 on the Warm Springs Reservation approximately 75 miles southeast of Portland, Oregon. The aircraft was headed to Boise, Idaho, on an IFR flight plan and departed Portland Troutdale Airport at 1:08 pm local time (PST). […]

Call it renewal or redemption, but flying has taken on a more important, maybe even precious, role in life. COVID-19 made sure that flying for all of us was sharply diminished. As we started to come back, I found the cadences and clearances to be more like diamonds, each exquisite and pleasing in a lapidary […]