Citation CJ4

At 2,165 nm the CJ4 reaches further than any other light jet in our fleet, and further than the Learjet 45 and the PC-24 that follow it at 2,000 nm each. It carries that reach in the largest cabin of the CJ line: 208 in against the CJ3's 188, the CJ2's 166 and the original CJ's 132. Eight seats, 71 cu ft of baggage across seven bags, 451 kt, and a 3,409 ft takeoff. For a charterer working down the CJ ladder, the CJ4 is where the family stops being a short-sector aircraft and starts covering a continent-edge leg without a stop.

The cabin is 58 in wide and 57.1 in high, and those two numbers are the honest limit. Every CJ shares the 58 in cross-section, and it is the narrowest in this category — a party of eight is seated rather than accommodated, and nobody stands. What the CJ4 offers instead is reach and predictability: the longest legs the class can fly, from runways most of the category can use, in an aircraft charterers already know the shape of. Specified against a Learjet 45, it trades nine seats and cabin length for 165 nm of range and a 3,409 ft runway against the Learjet's 5,040.

The longest leg in the class