May 04, 2021
The trend in asking prices for the Cessna’s Citation Excel, XLS and XLS+ has “outperformed” the overall business jet market for the last 12 months,” observes Paul Cardarelli, vice president of sales at JETNET, a leading aviation market intelligence organization. “I am seeing that the XLS model alone.
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Ventura Air Services adds first Cessna Citation Excel to its charter certificate
3 hours ago
The Citation can accommodate seven passengers and has a maximum range of 1,657 miles
Cessna Citation 560XL has a top cruising speed of 487 miles-per-hour
Ventura Air Services is pleased to announce the addition of its First Cessna Citation
Excel 560XL to its charter certificate. Ventura also added two additional Citation Excel 560XL’sa to be launched in the second quarter of 2021 as part of the planned expansion of its fleet based at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York. In November 2020, Ventura first announced the addition of the first Citation and two Bombardier Challenger 604’s to the fleet, which fully launched in the fourth quarter of 2020.
By Pilar Wolfsteller2021-04-08T22:00:00+01:00
A new regional carrier called Connect Airlines plans to begin passenger flights in October between the USA and Toronto’s Billy Bishop City airport.
The company behind Connect is Massachusetts-based charter specialist Waltzing Matilda Aviation (WMA). John Thomas, former group executive of Virgin Australia Airlines, is WMA’s CEO.
The airline intends to link Toronto to Midwest and Northeast US cities using De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 turboprops, it says.
“Connect Airlines will offer a premium service for day-tripping business travellers”, providing “a valuable alternative to business travellers as they start to fly between the United States and Canada again”, WMA says on 8 April.
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- February 25, 2021, 1:26 PM
Operators placing orders for the Citation Excel Eagle by March 31 will pay an introductory price of $3.45 million. (Image: Visual Media Group/CitationPartners)
Led by a threesome of former Cessna executives including longtime CEO and current chairman emeritus Russ Meyer Jr., CitationPartners is breathing new life into one of the Wichita airframer’s most popular twinjets, the Citation Excel, in a new nose-to-tail refurbishment program called Citation Excel Eagle. Using the help of Textron Aviation’s Wichita service center and FBO/MRO Yingling Aviation, CitationPartners’ goal is to turn out one or more Excel Eagles a month.
The program, which was announced in late February, transforms previous NetJets airframes into a fully-inspected aircraft with new parts, interior, paint, and Garmin G5000 avionics. Introductory pricing on the first three Excel Eagles, as well as for orders taken by March 31, is $3.45 million. After that, the price increases t