The Cessna Citation Longitude is a
business jet produced by
Cessna
Cessna () is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Originally, it was a brand of the Cessna Aircraft Company, an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing c ...
, part of the
Cessna Citation family.
Announced at the May 2012
EBACE, the Model 700 made its first flight on October 8, 2016, with certification obtained in September 2019.
The aluminum
airframe
The mechanical structure of an aircraft is known as the airframe. This structure is typically considered to include the fuselage, undercarriage, empennage and wings, and excludes the propulsion system.
Airframe design is a field of aerospa ...
has the fuselage cross-section of the
Citation Latitude, stretched by a seat row.
Powered by
Honeywell HTF7000 turbofans, it has a new ~28°
swept wing
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Swept wings have been flown since the pioneer days of aviation. Wing sweep at high speeds was first investigate ...
and a
T-tail for a range.
Design
The project is perceived as the follow-on development to the now-canceled
Cessna Citation Columbus. Its fuselage cross-section (83.25 inch circular section) is the same as the
Cessna Citation Latitude. The aircraft has a T-tail empennage and
area rule
The Whitcomb area rule, named after NACA engineer Richard Whitcomb and also called the transonic area rule, is a design procedure used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic speeds which occur between about Mach 0.75 and 1.2. For supersonic ...
fuselage contouring. The aluminum wings incorporate moderate winglets. Construction is aluminum for both wing and fuselage. The cabin is 7 inches shorter and 6 inches narrower than the Columbus design.
Initially, the
Snecma Silvercrest
The Safran Silvercrest is a French turbofan under development by Safran Aircraft Engines.
Development
The engine was announced at the 2006 National Business Aviation Association convention.
Certification was originally slated for th