Aircraft model
CESSNA 750
Everything here is true of every aircraft of the type, not of any one aircraft.
The Citation X, built 1996-2012 and continued as the X+ to 2018, was for many years the fastest civil aircraft in the world after Concorde, cruising at Mach 0.92 — about 525 knots. Cessna built it around a 37-degree swept wing and two large Rolls-Royce turbofans specifically to beat everything else in its class on time rather than on cabin size, and it did. It carries eight passengers just over 3,000 nautical miles. Aircraft delivered from 2002 have the uprated AE3007C1 engines with 5 per cent more thrust, a 400 lb higher gross weight and improved Honeywell avionics, which separates them from the 1996-2001 aircraft; the Citation X+ delivered from 2014 under the same designation adds winglets, AE3007C2 engines and the Garmin G5000 flight deck.
The speed is real and it is the whole point: on a transcontinental leg it arrives meaningfully earlier than a Challenger or a Gulfstream of the same era. What it costs is fuel — around 340 gallons an hour, far more than anything else at this cabin size — plus two AE 3007 engines whose maintenance is usually handled through a Rolls-Royce programme and whose costs off programme are serious. The cabin is narrower than the numbers suggest and is the aeroplane's main competitive weakness. Values depend almost entirely on engine programme status and avionics, and a cheap Citation X is cheap for reasons a pre-purchase inspection will find.
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- CESSNA 750
What it is
| Seats | 12 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | 2 |
| Engine | Rolls-Royce AE 3007C |
| Horsepower | — |
| Fuel | JetA |
| Certification basis | FAR25 |
| Production start | 1996 |
| Production end | 2012 |
| Endorsements required | multi-engine |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 525 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 3,070 nm |
| Service ceiling | 51,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 3,650 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 100 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | 5,140 ft |
| Landing over 50 ft | 3,400 ft |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 12 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 14,200 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | 1,269 lb |
| Max takeoff weight | 36,100 lb |
| Empty weight | 21,900 lb |
| Usable fuel | 1,930 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | 340 gal/h |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | $2,800,000 |
|---|---|
| Price, high | $5,500,000 |
| Prices as of | 2026 |
| Engine TBO | — |
| Overhaul cost, low | $1,000,000 |
| Overhaul cost, high | $1,500,000 |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 318 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 272 |
| Median year built | 2001.0 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 6 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 22.061 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 02 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 123 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 45.223 |
| Airworthiness directives | 20 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 272 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 272 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 272 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing multi-engine, turbo-fan, 2 engines, 7+ seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | —1 |
| Severity | —2 |
| Access | 1.4 of 103 |
| Support | 7.2 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 8.5 of 105 |
These record scores treat CESSNA 750 as one design with the same aircraft registered under other names: it includes 15 aircraft registered under TEXTRON AVIATION INC; includes 1 aircraft registered under CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO. Prices are not combined.
- Accident record: class median 1.23 · 42 models in class.
- Severity: class median 10.
- Access: class median 9,850.
- Support: class median 197.5.
- Liquidity: class median 32.81.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories.