Recent Advances in Inspection & Health
Monitoring of Aerospace Materials &
Structures for General Aviation
Jay Amos (Cessna Aircraft)
NDE Materials & Processes Engineering
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 Cessna is part of Textron, a multi-industry company with strong brands such as Bell Helicopter,
Kautex, Lycoming, AAI Corporation, E-Z-GO Jacobsen and Greenlee.
 Citation X
 Cessna's Citation X is the fastest business jet in the world (0.92 Mach), capable of flying from New
York to London in just under 6 hours.
 300th production Citation X rolled off the production line in 12/08; fleet has exceeded 1M flight hours
 Citation Sovereign
 Since the first delivery in late 2004, more than 250 Sovereigns have been delivered.
 Citation XLS+
 FAA certification was achieved in 5/08 (EASA in 3/09); first retail XLS+ delivered in 12/08
 With a global fleet of more than 700 and more than 1.4M flight hours (as of 8/08), the Excel/XLS is the
best-selling business jet model
 Citation CJ4
 CJ4 prototype completed first flight in 5/08; First flight of the production CJ4 in 8/08.
 Plan to begin customer deliveries in the first half of 2010.
 Mustang
 The first retail Citation Mustang entered service in April 2007, and Cessna delivered 45 in 2007
 About three of every five Mustangs go to international customers,
 Certified in 60 countries through April 2009; Fleet reached 100 in August 2008 and 200 in May 2009
Cessna Aircraft
 Corvalis and Corvalis TT
 The Corvalis TT received EASA certification February 2009
 Corvalis TT – the fastest fixed-gear single-engine piston aircraft on the market
 Acquired certain assets of the former Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Co. in
December 2007
 Skycatcher
 The Skycatcher Achieves ASTM Compliance in 7/09 Clearing the Way for
Deliveries
 Skyhawk
 Cessna delivered the 40,000th Model 172 in 2008 - the most produced aircraft in
history
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Cessna History
 Cessna Aircraft Company is the world's largest manufacturer of
general aviation airplanes in terms of units delivered. In 2008, Cessna
delivered 1,301 aircraft, including 467 Citation business jets.
 Leading designer and manufacturer of light and mid-size business jets
and utility turboprops, and a leading manufacturer of single-engine
piston aircraft
 Since the company was originally established in 1927, some 192,000
Cessna airplanes have been delivered around the world, flying in
nearly 80 countries
 including more than 24,000 twin-engine, 2,000 military jets and 6,000
Citations, making it the largest fleet of business jets in the world.
 Employment of 8019 as of 9/09.
 Most complete line of business jets in the industry - a Citation takes
off or lands somewhere in the world every 20 seconds.
 2009 approximate delivery rates (projected)
 400 single-engine pistons
 100 Caravans
 275 Citation business jets
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Wichita - Mid-Continent
Headquarters and jet assembly, 3.5 million square feet
Wichita - Pawnee
Component production, 1.5 million square feet
Wichita Citation Service Center
477,000 square feet – one of the largest buildings in Kansas
Room for some 100 Citations for service, w/5,270 service orders in 2007
Independence, Kan.
SEP and Mustang assembly, Opened in 1996, 528,000 square feet
Columbus, Ga.
Component production, Opened in 1996, 241,500 square feet
Chihuahua, Mexico
Component Production, Opened in 2006, 206,000 square feet
Citation Service Centers
Nine Cessna-owned Citation Service Centers or participating authorized facilities around the world.
Customer Support for piston products
Propeller-driven Cessnas are supported through a worldwide network of more than 350 independent service facilities operating
with high standards of customer service.
Cessna Pilot Centers
CPC network consists of 264 domestic and 13 international affiliates. CPC has been the leader in flight training since 1973. Since
2000, CPCs have delivered private and instrument pilot training to more than 100,000 pilots around the world.
CitationAir
Offers the full range of transportation solutions, ranging from Jet Cards, Jet Shares (fractional), Jet Management (turn-key, costeffective
way to optimize aircraft ownership with guaranteed use of the aircraft to support or back-up the CitationAir fleet and
revenue generation for the aircraft owners), Corporate Solutions (fleet access without whole aircraft ownership)
　
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