Citation CJ3

The CJ3 sits between the CJ2 and the CJ4 and earns its place on a specific pairing: seven seats and a 3,179 ft takeoff. Only the Citation CJ1, the PC-24 and the Phenom 300 get airborne in less across this class, and none of those three is a seven-seat Citation. The cabin runs 188 in with 75 cu ft of baggage across six bags — the largest hold of any CJ whose figure we hold — and range is 1,900 nm at 423 kt. For a charterer whose party has outgrown the CJ2's six seats but does not need the CJ4's reach, this is the rung that answers.

The cross-section is the CJ family's 58 in by 57.1 in, unchanged from the smaller aircraft below it and unchanged in the CJ4 above. Length is what moves between the rungs, and at 188 in the CJ3 has enough of it that seven people are not sitting in each other's laps on a two-hour sector. Production has ended. Against the Phenom 300, which leaves the ground in 3,138 ft against this aircraft's 3,179 and seats nine, the CJ3's case is the Citation cabin and the operating familiarity that comes with it rather than any figure on the specification sheet.

The seven-seat rung