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Cessna Citation Excel

Type (Muster)
Mid-sized business-jet (Geschäftsreiseflugzeug)

Country (Land)
USA

Manufacturer (Hersteller)
Cessna Aircraft Company
One Cessna Boulevard
Wichita, Kansas 67215
USA

Phone: 001-316/941-6488
Fax: 001-316/941-7812
Internet: www.cessna.textron.com

General (Allgemeine Angaben)
Crew (Besatzung): 2
Passengers (Passagiere): up to ten in various seat layouts.
Baggage volume (Gepäckraum): 2,4 cu m in aft compartment

Power plant (Antrieb): 2 x Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545A turbofans
Thrust (Schub): 2 x 16,92 kN (3800 lbs)
TBO: 5000 h, with hot section inspection at 2500 h

Take-off noise: 72,4 EPNdB
Approach noise: 93,1 EPNdB
Sideline noise: 85,3 EPNdB

Dimensions (Abmessungen)
Length (Länge): 15,79 m
Height (Höhe): 5,24 m
Span (Spannweite): 16,98 m
Wing area (Flügelfläche): 34,35 sq m

Cabin length (Kabinenlänge): 5,69 m excluding the cockpit
Cabin width (Kabinenbreite): 1,69 m (half height / in halber Höhe)
Cabin height (Kabinenhöhe): 1,73 m

Weights (Massen)
Basic operating weight (Einsatz-Leermasse): 5580 kg
Max. payload (max. Nutzlast): 994 kg
Payload with full fuel (Nutzlast bei vollen Tanks): 500 kg
Max. fuel (Max. Kraftstoff): 3080 kg
Fuel with max. payload (Kraftstoff bei max. Nutzlast): 2497 kg
Max. zero-fuel weight (Max. Masse ohne Kraftstoff): 6804 kg
Max. ramp weight (max. Rollmasse): 9163 kg
Max. take-off weight (Max. Startmasse): 9072 kg
Max. landing weight (Max. Landemasse): 8482 kg

Performance (Flugleistungen)
Max. cruise speed (max. Reisegeschwindigkeit): 795 km/h (429 KTAS) / Mach 0.755 at 10700 m
Stall speed (Überziehgeschwindigkeit): 167 km/h
Max. climb rate (max. Steigrate): 19,25 m/s at sea level
Max. operating altitude (Dienstgipfelhöhe): 13715 m
Balanced field length (Startstrecke): 1095 m
Landing distance at max landing weight (Landestrecke): 970 m
Range (Reichweite):
- 4009 km with four passengers at max. gross weight
- 2600 km with full payload (mit voller Nutzlast)

Costs (Kosten)
A price of 9,451 million US-Dollars was mentioned in 2002.
The list price for a factory-equipped aircraft was around 6,795 million US-Dollars as of September 1997.

Customers (Kunden)
By September 2002, more than 260 Citation Excels were in service.
As of September 1997, Cessna had more than 200 orders for the Excel, including 50 for the Netjets fractional ownership programme of Executive Jet Aviation.
Known customers are:
  - Automobilvertriebs AG, Austria
  - Avimex SA, Toluca, Mexico
  - Swift Transportation of Phoenix
  - Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation, took one on 28 August 2002
  - Taxi Aero Marilia (TAM) of Brazil
Deliveries were 81 in 2002, 85 in 2001, 79 in 2000, 39 in 1999 and 15 in 1998.

Remarks (Bemerkungen)
The Citation Excel combines wing and tail of the Citation Ultra (Encore) with a shortened fuselage from the Citation X to provide excellent comfort. The wing design features supercritical characteristics, and the center section structure spars pass beneath the cabin. Standard avionics include a Honeywell Primus 1000 digital flight control system. Each pilot has an 8 x 7 inch color display, and an 8 x 7 inch multifunction display is mounted in the center of the instrument panel.

History (Geschichte)
The Citation Excel was unveiled at the 1994 NBAA convention in New Orleans.
First flight was on February 29, 1996 at Wichita. Two aircraft were involved in the flight-test programme, which lasted for approximately 2000 hrs. FAA certification was received, with a delay of about six months, in April 1998. It is based on the „grandfather rights“ from the 560-series and thus does not fully comply to new European JAA standards.
The first delivery was made on 2 July 1998 to Swift Transportation in Phoenix, Arizona.
The 100th Citation Excel was delivered to a customer in August 2000, just two years after production started.

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Last updated 7 October 2003

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