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The CJ3+ offers maintenance improvements over the CJ3, such as LED lighting throughout, and Cessna’s AReS system records extensive data from the last 25 hours of flight time, accessible on the ground to troubleshoot maintenance problems. A new Kollsman KAPS II pressurization controller integrates with the FMS to automatically schedule cabin pressure. The 8.9 psi maximum differential provides an 8,000-foot cabin altitude at the 45,000-foot certification limit. There’s a new Clairity cabin management system and the entrance stairs now look and operate more like a business jet’s entry should.
Last January, we were given the opportunity to fly the CJ3+ at Textron Aviation’s sprawling west- Wichita campus on the east side of Dwight D. Eisenhower International airport (formerly Wichita Municipal/ Mid Continent airport). It was a Chamber of Commerce day in the Kansas Air Capitol, with light winds and balmy CAVU conditions across the plains. Befitting the presentation of a new model, we were met with a contingent of marketing and corporate communications personnel, anxious to show off their newest product.
Demo pilots John Reimer and Alex Marks introduced me to Mike Pierce, manager of technical marketing, who filled me in on the history and development of the CJ3+. The first CitationJet 525 appeared in 1993, an efficient light jet that reprised the original Citation 500’s theme created 21 years earlier. The CJ combined a new natural-laminar-flow wing section with Williams Engineering’s FJ-44 engine, producing 30 knots more cruise speed on 600 pounds less total thrust. That recipe has worked well through the evolution of the CJ line, including the CJ3 that was introduced in 2004.
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Reimer then walked me around N30CJ, a well-groomed demonstrator
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