FSX Cessna Citation 500

​FSX/SP2 Cessna Citation 500. The highly popular Cessna 500 Citation and 500 Citation I pioneered the entry level light business jet market, and their success formed the basis for the world's largest family of corporate jets. Aircraft created in Gmax. Includes interactive virtual cockpit, full moving parts and special animations front cargo and passenger door. By Alejandro Rojas Lucena. Flight dynamics by Brett Henderson.

WARNING

This is a complete Model made by compiled XML code in MDL format ,in other words is my first original FSX-SDK-SP2 , NOT COMPATIBLE WITH FS004.

ONLY FOR FSX IN ALL VERSIONS ,DX10 DX9 32, 64 BIT Operating systems.

VERY IMPORTANT!

Alejandro Rojas Lucena - May 2008.

All repaints require my permission before release. Repaints for commercial purposes are forbidden.

The highly popular Cessna 500 Citation and 500 Citation I pioneered the entry level light business jet market, and their success formed the basis for the world's largest family of corporate jets.

Cessna became the first of the big three American manufacturers (Piper, Beech and Cessna) to develop a jet powered transport. In October 1968 Cessna announced its plans to build a new eight place jet powered business aircraft that would be capable of operating into airfields already served by light and medium twins. Dubbed the Fanjet 500, the prototype flew for the first time on September 15 1969. Soon after the new little jet was named the Citation.

A relatively long development program followed, during which time a number of key changes were made to the design including a longer forward fuselage, repositioned engine nacelles, greater tail area and added dihedral to the horizontal tail. In this definitive form the Citation was granted FAA certification on September 9 1971.

Improvements including higher gross weights and thrust reversers were added to the line in early 1976, followed shortly after by the introduction of the enhanced Citation I later that same year. Features of the Citation I were higher weights, JT15D-1A engines and an increased span wing. A further model to appear was the 501 Citation I/SP, which is certificated for single pilot operation. The I/SP was delivered in early 1977.

Production of the Citation I ceased in 1985, its place in the Citation line left vacant until the arrival of the CitationJet (described separately) some years later Aircraft created in GMax. Includes interactive virtual cockpit, full moving parts and special animations front cargo and passenger door. Custom sound set included.

Notes:

All the Dynamics where entirely made by Brett Henderson, and much advice came from him. He was extremely demanding (Typical in real Pilots) which improves the plane, becoming very realistic..

Thanks to Freeflight Design Shop Design Forums and their community (as Usual) for their great help & advice.

Specially to Bill Leaning (Fr.Bill) ,who taught me enough to make an FSX airplane , his tutorials ,and his teaching for the designers community is something that deserve our thanks in the name of all designer's.

And special thanks to Matt Fullick (Expat) who provided me with more than 60 real photos of different models of citations among 500/550 ...they really helped me a lot, and some of the maps are made from his photos.

This file is freeware. Any use for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Do not make money from it in any way.

All my FS aircraft were created in GMax entirely by me.

Installation instructions:

Very Simple, unzip the file and place Citation I/500 folder in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes..just drop it in the airplanes folder.

Installation

Simply run the FSX Cessna Citation 500-Setup.exe​ install file to install into your copy of FSX, FSX:SE and P3D (all versions). The full source files are also included for manual install if you prefer.

Changelog

​[v1.0] - 2016-07-27

ADDED auto installer (FSX Cessna Citation 500-Setup.exe​) for installation into FSX, FSX:SE, P3D (all versions).

CODE SIGNED auto installer for security.

Adam McEnroe

Adam McEnroe is a flight sim enthusiast who has been simming since the days of FS95. Adam writes all of the download section editorials after testing each of the files. Adam has extensive knowledge using various flight simulator packages and thoroughly tests the files before writing about them. Adam also like to fly real-world aircraft in his spare time and is training for his PPL.

Should you wish, you can contact Adam via email at adam@flyawaysimulation.com.

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