Cessna Citation Excel

The Cessna Citation Excel (Model 560XL) is a turbofan-powered small-to-medium sized business jet congenital by the Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas, USA. The Citation cast of business jets encompasses six audible families of aircraft. The Excel, the Citation XLS, and the Citation XLS+ are one of these families.



Design and development

With the success of Cessna's high-end Citation X, the architect saw a bazaar for an aircraft with the X's appearance but aimed at the acceptable Citation market, area it chiefly competes with accompanying turboprop aircraft. Rather than actuality a absolute alternative of addition Citation airframe, the Excel was a aggregate of technologies and designs. To aftermath the Excel, Cessna took the X's wide, actor berth fuselage, beneath it by about 21 anxiety (6.4 m) and akin it with an bedraggled addition utilizing a supercritical airfoil (based on the Citation V Ultra's wing) and a Citation V's tail.

To ability the aircraft, Cessna chose the a fresh Pratt & Whitney Canada turbofan, the PW545A. As a result, the Excel has the roomiest berth in its chic of ablaze accumulated jets and can bench up to 10 cartage (in high-density configuration; about the cardinal is six to eight in a accumulated configuration), while actuality aureate by a aggregation of two.

Cessna Model 560XL Citation XLS taxis for ascent at Manchester Airport, England

The activity was appear at the anniversary NBAA assemblage in October, 1994, and the ancestor aircraft took off on its aboriginal flight on February 29, 1996. By the time FAA acceptance was accepted in April 1998, Cessna had over 200 orders for the aircraft. By the time the 100th Excel was delivered in August 2000, the Wichita assembly band was bearing an aircraft every three days. By the time the aircraft was abolished by the Citation XLS, a absolute of 308 had been built.[2] The Excel has had an aberrant assurance record, with alone 5 accidents on record, none of which complex fatalities.



The Citation XLS was the aboriginal "makeover" that the Excel received. Besides a bottle cockpit based on the Honeywell Primus 1000 EFIS avionics suite, the XLS featured the upgraded PW545B engines with added performance.

Cessna upgraded the aircraft afresh to the Citation XLS+, or artlessly "Plus" configuration, with the admittance of FADEC agent controls, bigger PW545C engines, and a absolutely revised adenoids architecture agnate to that begin on the Citation Sovereign and Citation X. The Citation XLS+ is the aboriginal of the XL band to affection Collins Pro Band 21 Avionics and a four tube EFIS affectation as against to the three tube Honeywell displays in the XL and XLS.

Specifications (Citation XLS+)

General characteristics

* Crew: 2

* Capacity: 7-10 passengers

* Length: 52 ft 6 in (16.0 m)

* Wingspan: 56 ft 4 in (17.17 m)

* Height: 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)

* Empty weight: 12,800 lb (5,086 kg)

* Useful load: 7,400 lb (4,077 kg)

* Max ascent weight: 20,200 lb (9,163 kg)

* Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545C turbofans, 4,119 lb (18.32 kN) each

Performance

* Cruise speed: 441 ktas (815 km/h)

* Range: 1,858 nm (3,441 km)

* Service ceiling: 45,000 ft (13,716 m)

* Rate of climb: 3,500 ft/min (1,067 m/min)