Cessna is celebrating the first European delivery of a Citation CJ4 to a private owner/operator in the UK. It says EASA certification is now pending and Cessna plans to make the first European-registered delivery of the aircraft type into Germany in the second quarter of 2011.

The manufacturer says: "The CJ4 is FAA approved for single pilot operations and shares a common pilot type rating with the other CJs. A pilot rated to fly any one of the CJs is therefore rated to fly them all."

The CJ4 has a range of just over 2,000nm a top speed of 453 knots and a takeoff roll of 3,130ft at maximum takeoff weight.

Cessna is finalising the release of a maintenance troubleshooting programme for the CJ4. It says: "The expert system programme, run from a disk or from the internet, greatly reduces the time it takes for Citation maintenance technicians to diagnose the cause of an alert from the engine indicating and crew alerting system through a simplified, intuitive process based on the specific EICAS alert."