Tue, Sep 08, 2009
Cessna Expects Type Design Validation From China By The End Of
The Year
Cessna Aircraft Company announced Tuesday it received an
order for three Citation Sovereigns from the China Flight
Inspection Center (CFIC) of the Civil Aviation Administration of
China (CAAC).
"The Citation Sovereign was chosen for its reliability, its wide
operating envelope with a maximum true airspeed of Mach 0.80 and
its low speed handling characteristics, which are important for
flight inspection missions," said Roger Whyte, Cessna's senior vice
president, Sales and Marketing.
"These three new Sovereigns will be a logical complement to
CFICs existing fleet of eight Citations," Whyte said. "The CFIC use
their Citations as flight inspection aircraft for the airways
calibration of all the airports in the Peoples' Republic of China
including Hong Kong and Macau and airports up to 15,000 feet in
elevation. The Sovereign will join the Citation XLS and XLS+ as the
only business jets in their class certified to operate from
airports at altitudes as high as 15,000 feet," he added.
Citation Sovereign File
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Cessna expects to receive CAAC type design validation by the end
of 2009. The three Sovereigns are scheduled for delivery to CFIC in
late 2010, at which time they will undergo modifications to support
the airways inspection mission. There are currently more than 20
Citations operating in China.
Since the first delivery in late 2004, more than 250 Citation
Sovereigns have been delivered. Certified for operations to 47,000
feet, Cessna says the Sovereign can take off from airfields as
short as 3,640 feet, has a maximum range of 2,847 nautical miles,
and has a maximum cruise speed of 458 knots.
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