Aircraft Overview: Cessna Citation Latitude
Aircraft Overview: Cessna Citation Latitude
Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude is a business jet that is produced by the Wichita, Kansas-based manufacturer.
Announced on Oct. 10, 2011, at the National Business Aviation Association Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), this Citation made its first flight on Feb. 18, 2014, from the Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.
Subsequently, FAA certification of the Latitude—which is the commercial designation of Textron Aviation’s Model 680A—was received on June 5, 2015, ahead of the first delivery in August 2015 to a U.S.-based customer.
Cabin
Including the two required crewmembers, the maximum seating capacity of the Citation Latitude is eleven, with seating possible for as many as nine passengers.
Those passengers are accommodated in a flat-floor, stand-up cabin that has a height of 6 ft., width of 6 ft. 5 in. and length of 21 ft. 9 in.
According to Textron Aviation specifications, the Latitude has a baggage capacity weight of 1,245 lb. and baggage capacity volume of 127 ft.3, while when flying at 41,000 ft., the cabin altitude is 4,950 ft.
Avionics
The Latitude’s two pilots operate the Model 680A using Garmin’s G5000 integrated flight deck, an avionics system that includes three 14-in. landscape flight displays that are ultra-high-resolution, and which can “function independently” as either a primary flight display (PFD) or multifunction display (MFD).
In addition to those displays, the Latitude’s G5000 avionics also has four touchscreen controllers.
Other standard features of the Citation Latitude’s G5000 integrated flight deck include Garmin’s GWX 8000 StormOptix weather radar that has “volumetric auto scan technology,” as well as the avionics manufacturer’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT).
That latter avionics feature utilizes a “terrain-alerting database” that gives pilots “a virtual-reality view of” obstacles, runways, terrain and traffic.
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) In and Out capability, required navigation performance authorization required (RNP AR) “down to .3 nm,” autothrottles that are “fully integrated” and the ability to display “key system” synoptics are also standard with the Latitude’s G5000 avionics.
On May 27, 2024, Textron Aviation announced upgraded avionics for the Citation Latitude.
At the time that announcement was made, the airframe manufacturer stated that Latitude airframes with “the latest G5000 avionics” will have Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Guidance System (SVGS) that is “shown on the primary flight displays” and which “couples with SVT” to enable approach minima “as low as 150 ft.”
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Variants
Powering the Citation Latitude are two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306D1 turbofan engines that, according to the FAA type certificate data sheet (TCDS), have a common takeoff and maximum-continuous static thrust limit—assuming a standard day and sea-level altitude—of 5,907 lb.
Beyond the Latitude’s 30,800-lb. maximum takeoff weight (MTOW), 27,575-lb. maximum landing weight and 11,394-lb. (1,700-gal.) usable fuel capacity—the latter of which is carried in two 5,697-lb. (850-gal.) wing tanks—the airframe has a basic operating weight of 18,656 lb., useful load of 12,394 lb. and maximum payload of 2,774 lb.
However, when the Latitude is carrying full fuel, the payload is reduced to 1,000 lb.
Mission and Performance
The performance limitations of the Model 680A include a maximum operating limit Mach (MMO) of 0.80 Mach at altitudes higher than 29,833 ft., as well as a maximum operating altitude of 45,000 ft.
The Citation Latitude’s maximum cruise speed is 446-kt. true airspeed (KTAS), and the airframe is also capable of a maximum climb rate of 4,050 ft. per minute (fpm) and climbing to flight level (FL) 430 in 26 min.
When carrying four passengers, flying at a high-speed cruise “with NBAA IFR [instrument flight rules] reserves,” and in standard conditions with no wind, the Latitude is capable of a 2,700-nm range.
The takeoff field length and landing distance—the former of which assumes no wind, standard conditions and sea-level altitude; the Latitude’s MTOW, and a paved runway that is dry and level—are 3,580 ft. and 2,480 ft., respectively.
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