Textron Aviation Citation Excel/XLS
The Citation Excel married a shortened Citation X fuselage with a straight wing and PW545 engines to create the most successful midsize jet of its generation, later updated as the XLS with more thrust and Honeywell Primus 1000 avionics. Nearly 700 Excels and XLSs were delivered, and the type remains a charter workhorse valued for its stand-up cabin and short-field ability.
In short: The Textron Aviation Citation Excel/XLS is a Midsize Jet with a range of 1,850 nm, a cruise speed of 433 knots and room for 8 passengers. Pre-owned examples trade around $2.5M–$5M and costs roughly $2,200 an hour to operate (estimate).
1,850 nm
Range
433 kts
Max cruise
8–9
Passengers
—
New price
Highlights
- Best-selling midsize jet of its generation
- Stand-up cabin with short-field performance
- Very affordable entry into the 560XL family
Performance
- Range
- 1,850 nm
- Max cruise
- 433 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.75
- Max altitude
- 45,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 3,560 ft
- Landing distance
- 3,180 ft
- MTOW
- 20,200 lb
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545B
- Fuel burn
- 190 gal/hr
Cabin
- Passengers
- 8 / 9
- 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
- —
- Variable cost / hr
- $2,200
- Fixed cost / yr
- $650,000
- First delivery
- 1998
- Out of production
- 2008
- Units built
- 690
- Pre-owned range
- $2.5M – $5M
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
$2.5M – $5M
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% ≈ $2.1M
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