Cessna
Cessna Citation CJ4
The largest of the CJ family — light‑jet economics with midsize‑jet range and baggage.
Aircraft
Light jet charter.
1–3 hour business legs, efficiently. Representative types: Phenom 300 · Citation CJ3+.
- Typical seats
- 6–7
- Category range
- 1,800+ nm
- Typical cruise
- ~440 kts
- Hourly, indicative
- $2,500–$4,500
The aircraft
Aircraft in this class
The 4 light jet types we source, longest range first. The hourly figure is the indicative market range for the class, $2,500–$4,500, not a rate for a specific tail.
Cessna
Cessna Citation CJ3+
An efficient, short‑field‑capable light jet that is often the cheapest way to put six people on a jet.
Embraer
Embraer Phenom 300
The most‑delivered light jet in the world, and the one most clients mean when they say they want a small jet.
Cessna
Cessna Citation M2
The entry point to jet travel — right‑sized for short hops with four or five passengers.
The mission
When this cabin is the right call.
1–3 hour business legs, efficiently. With roughly 6–7 seats and 1,800+ nm of range, this category suits trips where cabin size and runway performance both matter.
We don't own aircraft, so there's no incentive to push you up or down a category. If a smaller cabin does your trip for less, we'll say so — and if this one is being stretched to its limits, we'll say that too.
Where it excels
- Jet speed at the lowest jet operating cost
- Good short-field access for a jet
- Ideal for one- to three-hour business legs
Where it doesn't
- No stand-up cabin
- Payload drops noticeably with full fuel
- Transcontinental trips need a fuel stop
We publish the drawbacks because you will meet them anyway, and it is better to hear them now than at the airport.
Specifications
The numbers that decide the trip.
- Cabin height4 ft 11 in
- Cabin width5 ft 1 in
- Cabin length17 ft 2 in
- Typical payload≈ 1,800 lb
- Baggage volume≈ 74 cu ft
- Typical field length≈ 3,700 ft
- Max operating altitude45,000 ft
- Stand-up cabinNo
- LavatoryEnclosed, aft
Category-typical figures based on the representative types above. Individual aircraft vary with model year, interior layout and installed options — and runway requirements move significantly with altitude, temperature and weight. The operator's own performance data governs every trip.
Range in practice
Routes a light jet flies
Distances are great-circle figures; times are computed from a ~440 kts cruise plus taxi allowance, and move with winds and routing.
- 1,597 mi3 h 36 mfrom $12,283one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,583 mi3 h 35 mfrom $12,176one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,580 mi3 h 34 mfrom $12,150one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,574 mi3 h 34 mfrom $12,106one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,571 mi3 h 33 mfrom $12,079one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,540 mi3 h 29 mfrom $11,840one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,512 mi3 h 26 mfrom $11,628one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,511 mi3 h 26 mfrom $11,619one way, all‑in indicative
From-prices are the low end of this cabin's indicative bracket for the leg, one way, with our fee and federal excise tax included. They are brackets to plan against, not quotes.
