Maintenance and Modifications
Eagle Program Keeps Citation Excels Flying
Making Excels like-new adds value to older airframes
Citation Excel Eagle business jet modification

The best-selling midsize Citation Excel is still available for purchase in factory-new form, having morphed from the original 560XL in various iterations and now called the Ascend. But not surprisingly, a team of former Cessna Citation executives have taken on a small corner of the used market for the Excel and created a refurbished version—the Citation Excel Eagle—filling a market niche for buyers who like the airplane but don’t want to spend $17 million on the newest version. 

While the Excel Eagle is new in terms of avionics, interior, paint, and some other features, it does start with a preowned airframe and the existing engines, but the mod package extends the life of the Excel well into the coming decades.