In May 2009, two Citation XLS+ business jets were delivered to Lufthansa – the first deliveries of the model to a European customer.Ĭessna handed over a Citation XLS plus to Établissement National de la Navigation Aérienne (ENNA) of Algeria in November 2009.Ĭessna also says that the Excel / XLS is the world’s best selling business jet model with a worldwide fleet of nearly 680 aircraft logging over 1.5 million flight hours over 160 XLS have been delivered to Europe says Cessna. In October 2008, Cessna revealed that it already had 225 orders for the XLS plus, 70 of which Cessna says are destined for Europe. On, Cessna received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for the XLS plus certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) was received in March 2009. In 2006, the Citation XLS plus was announced and it made its maiden flight in 2007.
Two years down the line and the XLS was put up for upgrading. The first production Citation Excel was delivered in May 1998 and the first upgraded Citation XLS was delivered in July 2004. The Citation XL, which first flew in 1996, merged a combination of features from the Citation X and the Citation V with new Pratt & Whitney engines. The Cessna (a Textron company) Excel also, known as the model 560XL is one of the families of aircraft that formed the basis of the Citation series of business jet aircraft. The Cessna Citation Sovereign is a corporate intercontinental aircraft capable of carrying up to 12 passengers and two pilots at speeds of up to 848km/h.Ĭessna says that it has delivered 176 Sovereign aircraft by the end of 2007. In typical configuration the XLS plus can carry nine passengers and two pilots.
The XLS plus is capable of 815km/h and has a range of over 3,441km. The Citation XLS plus made its maiden flight in 2007.