Longitude awarded provisional type certificate
Super-midsize jet deliveries to begin in 2019
A provisional type certificate for Cessna’s Citation Longitude super-midsize 12-passenger jet was awarded to parent company Textron Aviation on Dec. 20 and paves the way for operators to begin flight training in preparation for “deliveries early next year,” a news release noted.
Photography courtesy Textron Aviation
The model has a stand-up, 6-foot tall flat-floor cabin, a 3,500-nautical-mile range, and a full fuel payload of 1,600 pounds. It has logged more than 1,650 flights and accumulated more than 4,050 hours during testing, according to the manufacturer’s news release announcing the provisional certificate.
A Citation Longitude circumnavigated the globe in 2018, in part to demonstrate “impressive performance figures.”
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