Aircraft
Stevens gets on board with C550 upgrades
Stevens Aviation (Booth No.

Stevens Aviation (Booth No. 3201) has struck a deal to market and support the Cessna Citation 550/S550 engine-conversion upgrade program offered by Clifford Development (Static Display), a Toledo, Ohio engineering firm that holds 35 engine-related supplemental type certificates for the model.

For an installed price of $2.345 million, Citation 550/S550 operators can add a pair of Williams International FJ44-3A turbofan engines flat-rated at 2,820 pounds of thrust. A re-engined Citation 550 has a 22-minute time-to-climb to FL430 versus the one hour and 37 minutes it takes to reach that altitude by step climbing with the airplane’s original Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D engines, according to Clifford Development.