A Citation Latitude departing Scottsdale Airport, Arizona, in October 2023. · Photo: Piemags Aviation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cessna · Midsize Jet
Citation Latitude (680A)
Third model of the Citation 680 family and Cessna's flat-floor midsize jet, one step below the Longitude.
The Latitude gives you one of the roomiest cabins in its class and uncommonly short runway needs, backed by a huge fleet and Cessna support. It gives up range and speed to rivals like the Praetor 500, so coast-to-coast is its practical limit.
Buy it if
You fly four to eight people on trips under about 2,000 nm, want a cabin where everyone can stand, and use shorter or higher-elevation runways than most midsize jets can manage.
Skip it if
You regularly need more than 2,500 nm nonstop with passengers aboard, want super-midsize speed, or plan frequent California to Hawaii trips with a full cabin.
Biggest compromise
Range and payload. With full fuel the Latitude can carry only about 1,000 lb of people and bags, and its 2,700 nm best case is roughly 600 nm shorter than an Embraer Praetor 500.
The numbers that matter
Purchase price
$18.75M
typical asking · $12.85M–$22.5M
What it costs per year
$2.15M
at 300 hrs · two professional pilots
How far it flies
2,700 nm
2,400–2,700 nm with passengers
How fast
446 kt
high-speed cruise
Seats
8
8 typical, 9 with belted lavatory seat
Pilots needed
2
Two pilots are required on every flight.
Price
What one costs to buy
Typical asking price
$18,750,000
Where asking prices sit
Low
$12.85M
Typical
$18.75M
High
$22.5M
Most asking prices fall inside this band.
Other sites
2.5% of the fleet
Priced vs call
with a price / call for price
Five of 15 listed aircraft show prices, from $12.85M for a 2016 to $22.5M for a nearly new 2026; 2015–2022 aircraft ask $12.85–18.75M.
Price vs its family and alternatives
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Citation Latitude (680A) · This aircraft
$18.75M
Sits between the Citation Sovereign+ (680) and the Praetor 500.
For sale now
None listed right now
Cost to own
What it costs per year to run
300hours / year
Per year
Per flight hour
Estimate — your operator will quote actual numbers.
Fuel, airframe maintenance, engine program, both engines and trip expenses rise as you fly more. Two professional pilots, recurrent training, hangar, insurance, management and charts, software and connectivity stay the same however much you fly.
Where the money goes
- Two professional pilots$411,88119%
- Recurrent training$33,0002%
- Hangar$63,3183%
- Insurance$54,1843%
- Management$60,0003%
- Charts, software and connectivity$50,0002%
- Fuel$713,16033%
- Airframe maintenance$315,00015%
- Engine program, both engines$246,15011%
- Trip expenses$202,5009%
Fuel is the biggest single cost at 33% of the total.
The JetGrade
75 out of 100 — Clearly above its class
Peer group: Embraer Praetor 500, Embraer Legacy 450, Cessna Citation Sovereign+, Hawker 900XP
Seven categories at a glance
- - - 70 = typical— This aircraft
Strongest on reliability & support, weakest on range & payload.
Grades are editorial opinions about the model, not any specific aircraft. Sponsors and affiliates have no input. Reviewed 2026-10-28.
Where it flies
Sample trips and reach
Typical trips on a map
Nonstop
Depends on weight or weather
7 of 8 sample trips are comfortable nonstops.
Sample flight times
- 0.9 hr
Carlsbad → Las Vegas
205 nm · Short hop with ample margin at any load
- 1.8 hr
Carlsbad → Aspen
625 nm · Routine Aspen visitor; summer departures can be weight-limited
- 2.1 hr
Santa Ana → San José del Cabo
765 nm · Easy nonstop with a full cabin
- 2.4 hr
Teterboro → West Palm Beach
900 nm · Comfortable nonstop with a full cabin
- 3.1 hr
Dallas → Teterboro
1,190 nm · Nonstop with seats full and margin
- 3.7 hr
Teterboro → San Juan
1,410 nm · Nonstop over water with most seats filled
- 5.3 hr
Carlsbad → Teterboro
2,100 nm · Coast-to-coast nonstop with four passengers
- 5.7 hr
Los Angeles → Honolulu
2,215 nm · Possible only with light load and extended oxygen
Lineage
What came before and after
2015–present
Citation Latitude (680A)
New 6-foot flat-floor fuselage on the proven 680 wing and engines.
What changed from the Citation Sovereign+ (680)
- New wider fuselage with a flat floor and 6-foot stand-up height replaces the dropped-aisle cabin.
- Cabin is shorter, about 21 ft 9 in against roughly 25 ft in the Sovereign+.
- Electric push-button airstair door with a simpler passive seal for better dispatch reliability.
- Keeps the PW306 engine family, now the PW306D1 at 5,907 lb of thrust each.
- Gives up some range against the Sovereign+ in exchange for the roomier cabin.
Size and cabin
How big it is, inside and out
Outside
Silhouette · scaled to length
Length
Wingspan
Height
Inside the cabin
Cabin length
Width
Height
Compare
How it stacks up
This aircraft
Citation Latitude (680A)
- JetGrade
- 75
- Price
- $18.75M
- Cost per year
- $2.15M
- Range
- 2,700 nm
- Speed
- 446 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 21′ 9″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2015–now
← Before
- JetGrade
- 73
- Price
- $10.89M–$13.25M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.39M
- Range
- 3,200 nm
- Speed
- 460 kt
- Seats
- 9
- Cabin length
- 25′ 3″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2013–2021
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 80
- Price
- $17.5M–$20M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.09M
- Range
- 3,340 nm
- Speed
- 466 kt
- Seats
- 7
- Cabin length
- 24′ 1″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2019–now
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 71
- Cost per year
- $2.45M
- Range
- 3,500 nm
- Speed
- 483 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 25′ 2″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2019–now
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 72
- Price
- $23.3M–$28M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.11M
- Range
- 3,400 nm
- Speed
- 470 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 25′ 2″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2022–now
- Embraer Praetor 500 instead: Flies about 600 nm farther and roughly 20 kt faster with a similar flat-floor cabin, but needs more runway and has a smaller fleet.
- Cessna Citation Longitude instead: Same cabin cross-section about 3.4 ft longer, with 3,500 nm range and more speed, for about $8 million more new.
- Bombardier Challenger 3500 instead: Steps up to a 7.2-ft-wide super-midsize cabin and 3,400 nm range for roughly $7.5 million more new.
Gold marks the best figure in each row.
Owning one
What to know before you buy
Engines & inspections
2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306D1 · 5,907 lbf each
Engine hours until overhaul
- Engine overhaul · 6,000 hr
- Inspection Document 16 every 96 months
Most aircraft for sale are on pay-per-hour engine plans; coverage level and transfer terms strongly affect value.
Known issues
Engine program status
An engine off a pay-per-hour plan carries overhaul exposure and buy-in costs that can move the price by millions.
Fleet-specification seats
Many used aircraft come from NetJets with smaller seats; upgrading to larger seats can exceed $500,000.
Early brake wear-pin AD
Early aircraft needed a one-time 2018 brake wear-indicator check; confirm it is signed off.
Pre-buy checklist
0 of 9 checked
Supported by Textron Aviation's factory service centers and a fleet of roughly 470 aircraft, with wing, engine family and many systems shared with the Sovereign line.
Review
The full review
Strengths
- Six-foot, 77-inch-wide flat-floor cabin with a 5,950 ft cabin altitude, so passengers arrive less tired.
- Needs only 3,580 ft of runway at maximum weight, about 640 ft less than a Praetor 500.
- Roughly 470 aircraft in service make parts, mechanics, pilots and resale buyers easy to find.
Limitations
- Full-fuel payload is just 1,000 lb, so long legs mean fewer passengers or lighter bags.
- Maximum cruise of 446 kt trails the Praetor 500 by about 20 kt.
- Only 27 cu ft of baggage is reachable in flight; most bags ride in the 100 cu ft aft hold.
The Citation Latitude is Cessna's midsize business jet built around one idea: a cabin where adults can stand up and walk on a flat floor. It entered service in 2015 as the third member of the Model 680 family, after the Sovereign and Sovereign+. Cessna kept the proven 680 wing, tail, fuel capacity and Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306 engine family, then wrapped them in a new, wider fuselage. Roughly 470 are now flying, and NetJets is by far the largest operator.
Pilot's take
From the flight deck the Latitude feels like a big, forgiving Citation. The Garmin G5000 with autothrottles keeps workload low, and pilots already rated in the Sovereign need only differences training. The large, lightly swept wing gives approach speeds near 95 kt and short-field numbers that let crews plan into mountain and short runways with more margin than most midsize jets. The trade is cruise: it is happiest in the low 400s of knots, and long legs reward careful fuel planning more than outright speed. Crews flying overwater should check for the extended-range oxygen option.
Who this is for
Companies, families and fractional-style operators who fly mostly domestic trips of two to five hours with four to eight passengers, value cabin comfort, and want a jet that is easy to staff, maintain and resell.
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