Cessna Citation CJ (525): US Fleet Statistics

The FAA aircraft registry lists 1,947 Cessna Citation CJ (525) aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Cessna Citation CJ (525) is a multi-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Cessna 525 together. It ranks #20 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 CJ (525) was manufactured in 2011. Most were built between 1999 and 2023, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1993 to 2026. A manufacture year is on file for 1,862 of the 1,947 registered aircraft.

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The FAA registry lists 1,947 Cessna Citation CJ (525) aircraft with a valid US registration — about 6.8% of all business jets in the US crewed fleet, and #20 of the 75 model families tracked here. The registered fleet carries a median manufacture year of 2011, newer than the overall US general-aviation fleet, whose median airframe dates to 1979. By state, Texas, California, and Delaware together account for 24.9% of the fleet, and the top ten states hold 52.2%.

The model 525 CitationJet/CJ family is the most-registered business-jet family tracked on this page, the product of decades of continuous production across the original CitationJet, the M2, and the CJ1 through CJ4. Among all US civil model families by registration count, it sits among the larger families on the registry — unusual for a business jet in a piston-dominated fleet.

Its registrations spread more evenly across states than most jets, with Texas, California, and Florida leading. Montana and Tennessee rank higher than their size would suggest — a distribution consistent with the CJ’s popularity among owner-flown and small-fleet operators rather than a handful of large fleets.

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 1,947 registered Cessna Citation CJ (525) aircraft.

The Cessna CitationJet / CJ series (model 525 — the original CitationJet, the M2, and the CJ1, CJ2, CJ3, and CJ4) is the entry point to jet ownership for many operators and one of the largest light-jet families in the world. It is popular with owner-pilots, small corporate flight departments, and charter fleets.

Much of the family is commonly flown single-pilot, which makes the CJ a favorite owner-flown jet and shifts the operational challenge toward personal currency, scheduling, and maintenance tracking that one or two people manage themselves rather than a full dispatch office.