Textron Aviation Citation Ascend
The Citation Ascend is the fifth generation of the 560XL family, introducing a flat-floor cabin, larger windows, Garmin G5000 avionics with autothrottle and more efficient PW545D engines. Certified in November 2025 with first deliveries that December, it succeeds the XLS Gen2 and launched with NetJets as a fleet customer.
In short: The Textron Aviation Citation Ascend is a Midsize Jet with a range of 1,940 nm, a cruise speed of 441 knots and room for 8 passengers. It lists at about $16.8M new and costs roughly $2,250 an hour to operate (estimate).
1,940 nm
Range
441 kts
Max cruise
8–12
Passengers
$16.8M
New price
Highlights
- First flat-floor cabin in the 560XL line
- Garmin G5000 with autothrottle
- Segment-leading cabin at 1,940 nm range
Performance
- Range
- 1,940 nm
- Max cruise
- 441 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.75
- Max altitude
- 45,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 3,660 ft
- Landing distance
- 3,200 ft
- MTOW
- 20,400 lb
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545D
- Fuel burn
- 190 gal/hr
Cabin
- Passengers
- 8 / 12
- Cabin length
- 18.5 ft
- Cabin width
- 5.5 ft
- Cabin height
- 5.7 ft
- Cabin volume
- 461 cu ft
- Baggage
- 90 cu ft
- Min. crew
- 2
Economics
- New price
- $16.8M
- Variable cost / hr
- $2,250
- Fixed cost / yr
- $700,000
- First delivery
- 2025
- Units built
- 15
- Pre-owned range
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Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly. Data reviewed 2026-09-11. Sources & methodology.
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
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Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly.
Export CSVResidual value curve
Estimated value retention over 10 years from new, by category depreciation model.
Year 10: 42% ≈ $7.1M
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