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Cessna XLS builds on popular midsize Excel

Cessna Aircraft last month unveiled the Citation XLS, a faster and longer-legged derivative of the Citation Excel with a price tag of $9.895 million and de

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

November 2, 2007

Cessna Aircraft last month unveiled the Citation XLS, a faster and longer-legged derivative of the Citation Excel with a price tag of $9.895 million and described as “a logical step up for customers moving up from smaller light jets.”

Senior vice president of product engineering Jack Pelton revealed that the Excel successor will feature many standard items that were options before. Valued at about $600,000, these include a nine-place interior with a six-place center-club seating configuration, a two-place belted couch and an aft left-hand belted seat. New passenger seats will add between two and four inches of seat-cushion width, and on the flight deck crew seats from Goodrich Aerospace will be standard.

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