Textron Aviation Premier IA
The Premier IA refined Beechcraft's composite-fuselage light jet with improved brakes, interior and avionics, delivering the widest cabin and fastest cruise in its class for single-pilot operation. Around 130 were built before production ended in 2012, and it remains an attractive owner-flown jet given careful attention to its landing performance.
In short: The Textron Aviation Premier IA is a Light Jet with a range of 1,360 nm, a cruise speed of 451 knots and room for 6 passengers. Pre-owned examples trade around $1.5M–$2.5M and costs roughly $1,500 an hour to operate (estimate).
1,360 nm
Range
451 kts
Max cruise
6–7
Passengers
—
New price
Highlights
- Widest cabin in the light-jet class
- 451 kt cruise, single-pilot certified
- Composite fuselage construction
Performance
- Range
- 1,360 nm
- Max cruise
- 451 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.8
- Max altitude
- 41,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 3,792 ft
- Landing distance
- 3,170 ft
- MTOW
- 12,500 lb
- Engines
- 2 × Williams FJ44-2A
- Thrust per engine
- 2,300 lbf
- Fuel burn
- 140 gal/hr
- Avionics
- Collins Pro Line 21
Cabin
- Passengers
- 6 / 7
- Cabin length
- 13.5 ft
- Cabin width
- 5.5 ft
- Cabin height
- 5.4 ft
- Cabin volume
- 315 cu ft
- Baggage
- 77 cu ft
- Min. crew
- 1
Economics
- New price
- —
- Variable cost / hr
- $1,500
- Fixed cost / yr
- $500,000
- First delivery
- 2006
- Out of production
- 2012
- Units built
- 163
- Pre-owned range
- $1.5M – $2.5M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly. Data reviewed 2026-09-13. Sources & methodology.
Dimensions & weights
- Length
- 46 ft
- Wingspan
- 44.5 ft
- Height
- 15.3 ft
- Max payload
- 1,450 lb
- Max fuel
- 3,670 lb
Programme milestones
- 2013Production ended · Jet line discontinued as Hawker Beechcraft emerged from bankruptcy en.wikipedia.org
Sources (5)
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
$1.5M – $2.5M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly.
Residual value curve
Estimated value retention over 10 years from new, by category depreciation model.
Year 10: 47% ≈ $1.2M
Compare with similar private jets
Compare: Premier IA vs Premier I vs Learjet 31A vs CitationJet/CJ1/CJ1+ →
Sources and credits
- Textron Aviation Premier IA · Netopyr · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons