When Cessna opened its new 159,000-sq-ft Orlando Citation Service Center on June 21, the facility became the largest in the company’s service-center network. And with a second construction phase adding another 26,000 sq ft due to be completed early next month, it’s hard to believe that this 185,000-sq-ft complex will no longer hold this distinction by Thanksgiving.
That’s because later next month Cessna will open its mammoth 447,259-sq-ft Wichita Citation Service Center at Mid-Continent Airport. Of that space, approximately 250,000 sq ft will be hangar area; Cessna will use the remainder for offices, back shops and customer amenities. The new facility–located literally down the road from Cessna’s Citation manufacturing plants–sits on a 124-acre site, with ample room for expansion. It will replace the existing 105,000-sq-ft service center/customer-support facility, which will become a Citation Sovereign completion center.
