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Pilot Report: Cessna’s New Citation Sovereign
This still experimental “new” Sovereign is the updated version of Cessna’s big midsize jet.
Cessna Citation Sovereign (Photo: Matt Thurber)
Cessna Citation Sovereign (Photo: Matt Thurber)

AIN 2013 Pilot Report: Cessna Citation Sovereign

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When I pushed the thrust levers forward for takeoff in the newest version of Cessna’s Citation Sovereign, not only did the big jet surge forward but something else interesting happened: at about 75 percent N1 the power levers moved forward on their own and set takeoff power precisely, rather than require Shannon Peterson, senior pilot flight operations, to make the fine adjustments for takeoff power. Shortly thereafter we reached rotation speed, I pitched into the V-bars on the flight director and the powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306Ds launched the Sovereign skyward.

This still experimental “new” Sovereign is the updated version of Cessna’s big midsize jet. While it’s easy to spot the new Sovereign with its gracefully upward-curved Cessna-designed winglets, there is a lot more to the upgraded jet.

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