Textron Aviation Delivers 8,000th Cessna Citation Business Jet

Textron Aviation announced it has delivered a Cessna Citation Longitude to Scotts Miracle-Gro. This jet represents the 8,000th Cessna Citation jet delivered worldwide, reinforcing the Citation family as the most popular line of business jets in the world. Scotts Miracle-Gro is one of the world’s largest marketers of branded consumer products for lawn and garden care and a long-time Citation owner. This is the fifth Cessna Citation in the company’s fleet.

Cessna Citations are renowned for their ability to combine reliability, efficiency and comfort with advanced technology and classleading performance, and no other family of business jets offers such a seamless progression of aircraft with extraordinary capabilities.

“The Citation is one of the most functional and reliable brands in the general aviation industry and I, along with the members of our flight department, congratulate Textron Aviation on the delivery of its 8,000 Citation aircraft,” said Jim Hagedorn, Chief Executive Officer of Scotts Miracle-Gro, a personal owner of the Citation CJ4, and former US Air Force F-16 pilot. “Reaching this milestone is a credit to the Cessna brand, which represents quality, design and attention to the entire flying experience — all things we were looking for as we add to our fleet of business jets.”