Cessna finally built the flat-floor, six-foot cabin the Citation line deserved, and the charter market inhaled it. The Latitude is now the backbone of several major fleets nationwide.
The Numbers That Matter
| Spec | Approximate Figure |
|---|---|
| Class | Midsize jet |
| Typical charter seating | 8 to 9 passengers |
| Range | about 2,700 nm |
| Cruise speed | about 445 knots |
| Cabin (length by width by height) | about 21.9 by 6.4 by 6 ft |
| Baggage | about 127 cu ft |
| Lavatory | Enclosed aft lav with vanity |
Figures are approximate manufacturer-class numbers for planning; individual aircraft vary by configuration, and your quote reflects the actual tail assigned.
Cabin, Seating, and the Bathroom Question
The door tells the story: a proper airstair into a cabin where nobody crouches. It changed what mid-size means, and fleets ordered it by the hundred.
- Club four center cabin with two forward seats
- Up to nine passengers with the aft two-place arrangement
- A six-foot flat floor from door to lav: most adults stand and walk upright
Yes, a fully enclosed aft lavatory with a vanity and solid door. Combined with the six-foot flat-floor cabin, it is much of why families and first-time charter groups love this airplane.
The midsize cabin is the first one that lets you forget the airplane: stand up, walk to the enclosed lav, pour a coffee mid-flight without choreography. Seats berth flat or nearly so on most types, the baggage hold swallows real luggage, and four hours passes in comfort rather than in patience. This is the class most first-time charter groups end up loving, because it feels like the private-jet idea they had in their head.
Baggage and What Fits
About 127 cubic feet aft, the most in this class by a wide margin: ski trips for eight, hockey bags, trade-show cases. If the trip is gear-heavy, the Latitude is the midsize answer.
Models and Variants
Charter listings rarely say which generation you are getting unless you ask. The family tree, so the name on your quote means something:
| Variant | What changed |
|---|---|
| Citation Latitude | one variant, built since 2015 and continuously updated; the fractional fleets operate them in bulk |
| Citation Ascend | the next-generation successor now entering service alongside it |
The Trips It Was Built For
Match the airframe to the mission and the quote gets better. This one earns its keep on: Business & Executive Family Vacations Ski & Mountain Trips Groups & Events
Flying It Out of Denver
Modern avionics, coast-capable range, and a cabin your knees respect: the Latitude covers ninety percent of Denver missions and is often the newest metal on a midsize quote.
From Centennial, published range comfortably covers Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami.
From KAPA this class flies the missions Denver actually generates most: six to eight people to either coast, ski-country support when the strip and the load allow, Florida with one comfortable stop or none. It is the class where families stop compromising and businesses stop apologizing, and the based fleet at Centennial runs deep enough that short-notice midsize requests usually find metal.
How Chartering One Works
Chartering this type through FlyCentennial works the same as every aircraft on the site: you send the trip through the Get Best Rate form below, we shop it quietly to operators flying this class out of the Front Range, empty legs get checked first, and one itemized number comes back with the tail, the year, and the interior spelled out. No membership, no deposit program, no phone tag with five sales desks. You compare, you ask questions, you book or you walk, and the quote costs nothing either way.
The Operator Behind the Tail
Every aircraft quoted here flies on a Part 135 air carrier certificate, which is the regulatory difference between commercial charter and a friend with an airplane: recurrent crew training, drug and alcohol programs, maintenance tracking, and FAA oversight on all of it. We match the trip to operators whose certificate, crews, and insurance fit the mission, and we will tell you plainly why a given tail earned the quote.
When to Book
On timing: a week ahead is comfortable for this class on domestic lanes, and two or three days is usually workable outside holiday crushes. The calendar spikes that actually bite are ski-season Fridays, major game weekends, and the days around Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the whole fleet is spoken for by noon. Book those the moment dates firm; everything else can breathe. Empty-leg matches, by nature, reward the flexible over the early.
What It Costs to Charter
Midsize pricing buys the stand-up cabin: a meaningful step over light jets, usually justified the first time anyone stretches their legs. Rates move with dates, positioning, and the specific aircraft, which is why we quote trips rather than publish a rate card that would be wrong by Friday. The form below returns a real number, free.