Cessna Citation — U.S. Fleet History Data
Jet · 5,621 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1950–2026
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Cessna Citation airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 32 — Landing Gear : 1,938 reports
- 52 — Doors : 838 reports
- 33 — Lights : 755 reports
- 21 — Air Conditioning : 742 reports
- 27 — Flight Controls : 697 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2026-03-06 · effective 2026-03-13 — manufacturer's revision of the aircraft maintenance manual (AMM) to introduce more restrictive inspection intervals
- AD 2025-23-08 (recurring) · effective 2025-12-02 — reports of damaged intercooler inlet and outlet hoses
- AD 2025-20-11 · effective 2025-10-17 — report of rudder control pushrod failure during a production ground run, caused by sheared rivets off of a rudder control pushrod
- AD 2025-11-09 (recurring) · effective 2025-07-11 — reports of mis-wired fire extinguishing bottles
- AD 2024-15-09 · effective 2024-10-22 — report of the potential for a failure of the ATLAS system in which a loss of load alleviation would be un-annunciated
ADs published since 2013 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.
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