Cabin Interior and Electronics
Changes Are Evident in Design of New Cessna Sovereign Cabin and Cockpit
The Sovereign cockpit was designed to be an integrated whole with the cabin and features Cessna’s Intrinzic flight deck (based on a Garmin G5000 system) and leather and stainless steel trim.
The Sovereign cockpit was designed to be an integrated whole with the cabin and features Cessna’s Intrinzic flight deck (based on a Garmin G5000 system) and leather and stainless steel trim.

The newest versions of Cessna’s Citation Sovereign and X may seem at first glance to embody relatively minor changes, but Cessna designers have put a lot of effort into upgrading the two popular models. The most overt changes are the switch to Cessna’s Intrinzic flight deck, based on a Garmin G5000 avionics suite with four touchscreen controllers, as well as powerplant upgrades, new winglets on the Sovereign and a longer fuselage on the X. But the interiors of the jets are the subject of intensive focus by Cessna’s design team, led by vice president of interior design and engineering Cynthia Halsey. AIN had an opportunity to interview Halsey about what was involved in the interior redesign on the Sovereign, which she pointed out involved both the cabin and cockpit as an integrated whole.

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