The Cessna Citation Mustang is a

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that was built by

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Launched at the 2002 NBAA convention, the Model 510 first flew on April 23, 2005. It received its FAA

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on September 8, 2006, and was first delivered on November 22. Production ended in 2017 after 479 aircraft were built. The

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jet is powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F

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s, can reach , and has a range of .

Development

Launched at the 2002 NBAA convention, the $2.4 million Mustang first flew on April 23, 2005. The airplane received full

from the

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on September 8, 2006. Cessna received FAA certification to fly into "known icing conditions" on November 9, 2006. Cessna delivered the first production LJ on November 22, 2006, the same day the FAA awarded Cessna with the necessary certification. Dave and Dawn Goode of GOODE Ski Technologies received the first retail delivered Cessna Mustang on April 23, 2007. In 2010, Cessna launched an enhanced edition of the aircraft called the ''High Sierra'', which features higher-quality cabin furnishings and enhanced avionics, including

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. In 2015, its unit cost was US$3.35 million. Cessna ended production of the design in May 2017 due to lack of customer demand for the aircraft as a result of competition from the company's own Cessna Citation M2. The company had been selling an average of 40 Mustangs per year until the M2 was introduced in 2013, and then Mustang sales dropped to just 24 aircraft over the next three years. The M2 is a faster and larger aircraft, but it can operate from similar-length runways and requires the more-common C/E-525 type rating, which potentially reduces training and crewing costs over the Mustang. A total of 479 examples of the Citation Mustang were produced. In 2018, used 2009-2016 Mustangs were priced at $1.85-2.5 million. In 2019, a test aircraft using a modified Mustang fuselage but powered by a single

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engine,

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''N350CE'', was photographed by a Wichita engineer. A Cessna vice president interviewed by ''AvWeb'' confirmed the existence of the aircraft and said that Cessna had been considering producing a new model to fill the gap between the Mustang and the

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, but characterized the test aircraft as a "technology demonstrator" rather than a

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vehicle or a prototype, and would not confirm plans for production.

Design

The Mustang is a

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with a tapered wing,

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, and retractable

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. One main door is located in the forward left section of the aircraft, with an additional

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on the center right section of the

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. In its standard configuration, the Mustang has four passenger seats in the aft cabin, a toilet, and seating for two in the cockpit. The

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is primarily of

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construction and has a three- spar wing. Power is provided by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F

s mounted in pods on the aft fuselage. The aircraft was built at the Cessna production facility in

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. Like many other light jets, the Mustang is approved for single-pilot operation.

Specifications

Operators

Half of the fleet is in the

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and

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, mostly operated by firms or individuals owning a single aircraft and typically flown by their owners, with some owners defraying a portion of the fixed operating costs by sharing use with

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s. Outside of North America, most are exclusively flown by third-party crews. Most of the other half of the fleet is

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: 23 aircraft in the

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, 20 aircraft in

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, six in the

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, five in

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. In

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has 31 aircraft, there are 10 in

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and

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. In the Middle East four are in

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and two are in

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. Six are in

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.There are 4 Certified Full Flight Simulators available in the world for this aircraft type:Rome Monterotondo, Italy; Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; Wichita, Kansas, USA; and Farnborough, UK.

Accidents

* On Thursday, 14 December 2017, a Mustang registered as OE-FWD, operated by Skytaxi Luftfahrt from Egelsbach Airport, crashed while on approach to

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, Germany, 15 km from the runway. The crash killed the flight's one passenger and the two crew members, including its captain, who was company CEO and chief pilot Adi Anderst. This was the type's first fatal accident and its first major accident in a decade.

References

External links

Manufacturer's website

FAA Type Certificate A00014WI
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