Cessna Citation 560/XLS: US Fleet Statistics

The FAA aircraft registry lists 1,336 Cessna Citation 560/XLS aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Cessna Citation 560/XLS is a multi-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Cessna 560 together. It ranks #36 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.

These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.

The median registered Cessna Citation 560/XLS was manufactured in 2002. Most were built between 1992 and 2015, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1989 to 2025. A manufacture year is on file for 1,255 of the 1,336 registered aircraft.

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The FAA registry lists 1,336 Cessna Citation 560/XLS aircraft with a valid US registration — about 4.6% of all business jets in the US crewed fleet, and #36 of the 75 model families tracked here. The registered fleet carries a median manufacture year of 2002, newer than the overall US general-aviation fleet, whose median airframe dates to 1979. By state, Texas, Delaware, and Florida together account for 28.6% of the fleet, and the top ten states hold 57.0%.

The Citation 560/XLS family is one of the most-registered business-jet families in the country, a direct result of how long the line stayed in production and how deep its used market runs. Among jet-powered aircraft on the registry it holds one of the larger single-family shares.

Texas leads its registrations by a wide margin, and Delaware’s large share is driven by the registration trusts common to higher-value jets rather than physical basing. Oklahoma and Kansas also appear prominently, reflecting long-standing business-aviation and maintenance centers in those states.

Shares are computed from the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026. Engine-type share is of all business jets in the crewed US fleet; state shares are of all 1,336 registered Cessna Citation 560/XLS aircraft.

The Cessna Citation 560 family — the Citation V, Ultra, Encore, and the popular XLS and XLS+ — is one of the most successful light-to-midsize business jets ever built. It gives corporate flight departments and charter fleets true jet speed with the ability to work shorter runways than larger-cabin jets.

The XLS in particular is a fixture of the on-demand charter market and of fractional fleets. These aircraft are typically flown two-crew and dispatched on demand, so the operational load centers on crew scheduling, duty and flight-time record-keeping, and keeping inspection status visible before a revenue leg.