Cessna Citation Mustang
| Citation Mustang | |
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| Type: | Business jet |
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| First flight: |
April 23, 2005 |
| Commissioning: |
November 23, 2006 |
| Production time: |
2005-2017 |
| Number of pieces: |
471 |
The Citation Mustang ( also Cessna 510 ) is a light jet ( Very Light Jet ) designed for business travel by the American manufacturer Cessna , which was built from 2005 to 2017.
development
Equipped with two jet engines, the Mustang is the smallest jet in the Citation family of aircraft . The VLJ is fitted as standard with four club-style seats; a fifth passenger can be seated in the cockpit instead of the second pilot. It is equipped with a glass cockpit , autopilot and weather radar from Garmin . The jet may also be flown by only one pilot, the maximum take-off weight is less than 4,540 kg.
history
The Cessna Citation Mustang completed its maiden flight on April 23, 2005. It was approved on September 8, 2006. Just two months later, on November 23, 2006, the first copy was delivered. The 300th aircraft left the factory in February 2010. The highest number (125 pieces) was delivered in 2009. In the four years from 2013 to 2016, only 26 Mustangs were handed over to customers, which led to the decision to stop production. The last machine was completed on May 11, 2017.
Turkish Airlines trains its pilots on two Citation Mustangs, among other things.
Technical specifications
- Model 510
| General Information | |
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| crew | 1-2 |
| Passengers | 4-5 |
| Runway | 725 m |
| Takeoff route | 948 m |
| Purchase price | 2.766 to max. $ 3.145 million. |
| operating cost | $ 725 per hour |
| Engines | 2 × Pratt & Whitney PW615F-A |
| Dimensions | |
| length | 12.37 m |
| span | 13.16 m |
| height | 4.09 m |
| Cabin length | 2.97 m |
| Cabin height | 1.37 m |
| Cabin width | 1.4 m |
| Luggage space | 1.8 m³ |
| Mass information | |
| Empty mass | 2433 kg (without pilot) |
| Max. Payload | 544 kg (when operated with 1 pilot, 91 kg) |
| Max. Takeoff weight | 3921 kg |
| Max landing mass | 3629 kg |
| Services | |
| Max. Cruising speed | 630 km / h |
| Max. Range | 2130 km |
| Service ceiling | 41,000 ft (12,497 m) |
| thrust | 2 × 6.49 kN (1460 lbs ) |
Incidents
On December 14, 2017, a Citation Mustang registered in Austria crashed while approaching Friedrichshafen Airport near Waldburg ( Ravensburg district ). The machine started in Frankfurt-Egelsbach and had three occupants on board, none of whom survived the accident. The aircraft belongs to the Bregenz flight service "Skytaxi"; Among the dead was the company's pilot and managing director and the German architect and entrepreneur Josef Wund .
See also
Web links
- Official website of the manufacturer
- Type certification of the Cessna Model 510 (Citation Mustang) - EASA-TCDS-A.502 (PDF; 73 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight International, May 23, 2017 (English), p. 20.
- ↑ a b Citation Mustang crashed on approach to Friedrichshafen - Aerobuzz.de . In: Aerobuzz.de . December 15, 2017 ( aerobuzz.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
- ↑ Press release from Cessna dated February 4, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Flight, May 2017.
- ↑ Cessna Citation Mustang Light Business Jet. In: Aerospace Technology. Retrieved on August 2, 2018 (English): "The Turkish Airlines Flight Training Academy ordered two Mustang business jets in May 2010."
- ↑ Comparison of the aircraft types (see price list). ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Crash: Vorarlberg pilot among the victims orf.at, December 15, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
- ↑ Two years after the tragic plane crash: the death of the Thermenkönig reconstructed. November 8, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 .
