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Inside the cabin of the Citation CJ II

One aircraft, on our own permit — why a light jet is the right aeroplane for most Indian sectors.

Choudhary Aviation Facilities Pvt. Ltd.

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Inside the cabin of the Citation CJ II — editorial image

We operate one aircraft: a Cessna Citation CJ II, registered VT-MON, based in New Delhi. Not a listing on somebody else's fleet page — an aeroplane on our permit, with crew we know and a maintenance record we can put in front of you.

Why a light jet

A great deal of private aviation marketing is built around aircraft that are wrong for the mission. Delhi to Mumbai is a two-hour flight, not a transatlantic crossing. A heavy jet on that sector is a larger fuel bill and a larger charter cost buying capability that the route never asks for.

The CJ II carries up to seven passengers, cruises at around 400 knots and has a range of roughly 1,450 nautical miles from New Delhi. That covers the overwhelming majority of domestic sectors in a single hop.

The runways it opens

The more interesting number is not the range. It is the runway. The CJ II operates comfortably from strips that larger business jets cannot use, and in a country with a great many secondary airfields, that is the difference between landing near where you are going and landing an hour and a half away from it.

Short-field capability is not a specification that sells itself in a brochure. It is the reason a plant visit, a site inspection or a district-level meeting becomes a day trip instead of an overnight.

Ours, not brokered

The distinction that matters most is not in the cabin. When you fly VT-MON you are flying our aircraft under our permit. We know its history because we hold it, and we know the crew because they are ours.

A broker sourcing an aircraft from a third-party operator can tell you what they have been told. We can tell you what we know. On the question of who is actually flying you and how the aeroplane has been maintained, that is not a small difference.

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