Textron Aviation Citation Latitude
The Citation Latitude brought a wide, stand-up flat-floor cabin to the midsize class in 2015 and quickly became the best-selling midsize jet in the world, thanks in large part to a NetJets order for up to 200 aircraft. It pairs a 2,700 nm range with excellent short-field performance and Garmin G5000 avionics.
In short: The Textron Aviation Citation Latitude is a Midsize Jet with a range of 2,700 nm, a cruise speed of 446 knots and room for 8 passengers. It lists at about $21.5M new and costs roughly $2,600 an hour to operate (estimate).
2,700 nm
Range
446 kts
Max cruise
8–9
Passengers
$21.5M
New price
Highlights
- Best-selling midsize jet worldwide
- Stand-up flat-floor cabin 6.4 ft wide
- Short-field capable with 2,700 nm range
Performance
- Range
- 2,700 nm
- Max cruise
- 446 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.8
- Max altitude
- 45,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 3,580 ft
- Landing distance
- 2,480 ft
- MTOW
- 30,800 lb
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306D1
- Thrust per engine
- 5,907 lbf
- Fuel burn
- 210 gal/hr
- Avionics
- Garmin G5000
Cabin
- Passengers
- 8 / 9
- Cabin length
- 21.8 ft
- Cabin width
- 6.4 ft
- Cabin height
- 6 ft
- Cabin volume
- 620 cu ft
- Baggage
- 100 cu ft
- Cabin altitude at ceiling
- 5,950 ft
- Min. crew
- 2
Economics
- New price
- $21.5M
- Variable cost / hr
- $2,600
- Fixed cost / yr
- $800,000
- First delivery
- 2015
- Units built
- 430
- Pre-owned range
- $12M – $18M
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
- 62.3 ft
- Wingspan
- 72.3 ft
- Height
- 20.9 ft
- Max payload
- 2,774 lb
- Max fuel
- 11,394 lb
Programme milestones
- 2011-10Announced · Announced at NBAA convention en.wikipedia.org
- 2014-02-18First flight · Prototype first flight, Wichita media.txtav.com
- 2015-06Certification · FAA type certification media.txtav.com
- 2015-08First delivery · First customer deliveries investor.textron.com
Sources (5)
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
$12M – $18M
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: 42% ≈ $9M
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Sources and credits
- Textron Aviation Citation Latitude · Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons