On Friday, October 4th, NetJets announced that it had received the delivery of its 50th new private jet in 2024. In a post on LinkedIn, the largest charter flight and fractional ownership operator revealed that its newest aircraft was a Cessna Citation Latitude, meaning that it has now received fifty brand-new business jets throughout the year. This super-midsize business jet extends its fleet operations, as well as deliveries of other aircraft that encompass the large company’s extensive charter and fractional ownership operations.

Fifty new private jets

The newest NetJets private jet delivered was a Cessna Citation Latitude, a super-midsize business jet that is produced by Textron Aviation, the parent company of Cessna Aircraft Company. This brings the total number of aircraft that NetJets has accepted delivery of in 2024 to fifty private jets. These fifty private jets have a total value of approximately $1.3 billion, which signals the significant growth in its fleet that NetJets is overseeing.

NetJets Cessna Citation Latitude

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The President of NetJets, Pat Gallagher, also spoke about the significant fleet growth NetJets is experiencing. According to Private Jet Card Comparisons, Gallagher stated,

“The finest fleet keeps getting better! Proud to welcome our 50th brand-new aircraft of the year, pushing the value of NetJets’ 2024 deliveries to ~ $1.3b and counting. With each new addition, we’re increasing Owner access to top-of-the-line Jets and widening our ‘moat.’ Only NetJets!”

About the existing NetJets fleet

As previously mentioned, the 50th private jet received by NetJets was a Cessna Citation Latitude. This is the company’s 226th super-midsize jet that is produced by Textron Aviation, which is the largest type of aircraft that NetJets operates. It has received three

Cessna Citation Latitudes
over the past month to bring the number of active Citation Latitudes to 226.

The company also operates several other Cessna Citation aircraft. This includes two other super-midsize offerings, the Cessna Citation Sovereign, which was last produced in 2021, and the Citation Longitude. NetJets operates 32 of the Citation Sovereign and 68 of the Citation Longitude. NetJets also operates 70 Cessna Citation XLS variants, a midsize business jet. The charter company is a future operator of the newest Citation XLS variant, the Citation Ascend, after the company announced an order of up to 1,500 private jets over the next 15 years. This deal was valued at up to $30 billion.

The smallest aircraft that NetJets operates is a light business jet from Embraer, the Phenom 300. NetJets owns and operates 144 total Phenom 300s.

Beyond this, NetJets is the largest operator of Bombardier ultra-long-range aircraft, as it operates 76 total Global jets. This includes the following aircraft:

  • 26 Bombardier Global 5000 series
  • 35 Bombardier Global 6000s
  • 15 Bombardier Global 7500s

NetJets operates several other Bombardier business jets, including over 50 Bombardier Challenger 650s and 88 total Bombardier Challenger 350s. Finally, NetJets operates 12 total Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000EXs.

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