1994 Cessna 560 Citation V for Sale (N560PY)
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Available now: 2001 Citation Bravo — $2,300,000
Aircraft Specifications
- Asking Price
- Sold
- Year
- 1994
- Model
- Cessna 560 Citation V
- Registration
- N560PY
Consultant's Notes
The short version
A 1994 Cessna 560 Citation V, registration N560PY. Straight wing, two Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D engines, CE-500 type rating.
This aircraft has been sold. The page stays up because what follows answers the question that decides whether a 560 is the right aircraft for you, and it is not a question about speed: how many people, how much baggage, and how far — at the same time?
Seats are not the same as capacity
Every light jet listing quotes a seat count. It is close to meaningless on its own, and it is where buyers of this class of aircraft are most often disappointed.
The 560 is typically configured for eight passengers in the cabin. Whether it can carry eight passengers, their bags and enough fuel for your longest regular leg — on a warm day, from your actual home airport — is a different question, with a different answer, and the answer lives in the weight and balance for that specific serial number.
The physics is unavoidable: fuel and payload trade against each other. Fill the seats and you cannot fill the tanks. Fill the tanks and you cannot fill the seats. Every aircraft in this class works this way; the only variable is where the line falls, and on a thirty-year-old airframe the line has usually moved from the brochure because of interior modifications, added equipment and paint.
So the question to ask a seller is never "how many seats?" It is: send me the current weight and balance. Not the type-certificate figures — the actual basic operating weight of that aircraft as it sits today, after its most recent weighing. Then do the arithmetic for your real mission: your passengers, your bags, your route, your typical departure temperature and field elevation.
If a seller cannot produce a current weight and balance quickly, that is information too.
Where the 560 genuinely earns its place
Compared with a Citation II, the 560 gives you a longer cabin and more thrust. That extra cabin is not a detail on a three-hour leg — it is the difference between passengers who arrive willing to do business and passengers who arrive stiff.
Compared with a swept-wing aircraft of similar cabin size, the 560 trades cruise speed for field performance. It gets into runways that faster aircraft cannot use. For an operator whose home base or most frequent destination has a short runway, that trade is not a compromise, it is the entire reason to own this type.
And it carries the CE-500 rating shared across the Citation family — so crews, recurrent training and maintenance relationships carry across.
The honest mission test
Before looking at any aircraft in this class, write down the three legs you actually fly most often. Not the aspirational transcontinental trip — the real ones, the ones that fill the logbook.
For each: passengers, bags, departure airport, arrival airport, typical time of year. Then have that checked against the aircraft's real numbers.
Most disappointment with light jets comes from buying for the trip you take twice a year instead of the trip you take twice a month. The 560 is very good at two-to-three-hour legs with a full cabin out of modest runways. It is not a transcontinental aircraft, and no configuration makes it one.
What to verify on any 560
Current weight and balance. For the reasons above. On this type it is the document that decides fit.
Engine variant, hours and programme status. Confirm which JT15D is fitted, whether the hours are total time since new, where each engine sits against its intervals, and whether any hourly programme covers them. This is the largest single variable in cost of ownership.
The actual variant. The 560 designation covers more than one aircraft, and listings use the names loosely. Confirm from the serial number, not the advertisement.
ADS-B Out, RVSM and approach capability. Installed, certified and current for the airspace and the approaches you will actually use.
Corrosion and basing history. Where the aircraft has lived, not just who owned it.
Damage history and title, in writing, plus your own search.
A pre-purchase inspection at a facility you choose. Not one the seller suggests — and that applies to whoever is publishing the listing, this one included.
Who the 560 suits
A company flying regional legs with genuine passenger loads, out of airports where runway length rules out bigger equipment. An operator already inside the CE-500 family. A buyer who has done the weight-and-balance arithmetic and knows the aircraft fits the mission rather than hoping it does.
Who it does not suit
Anyone whose real mission is transcontinental. Anyone who needs eight passengers, full baggage and maximum range simultaneously — that combination does not close on this class of aircraft, and any seller who suggests otherwise is not doing you a favour. And anyone unwilling to check the numbers for their own routes before committing.
What is currently available
The aircraft listed on this site today is a 2001 Citation Bravo, serial number 550-0995. It is a smaller cabin than a 560 — worth stating plainly, because the section above is about not deceiving yourself on capacity.
What it offers instead is programme-backed predictability: PW530A engines on Power Advantage+ with full coverage, plus Pro Parts. Its full specification and assessment are on its own page, along with the same instruction to check the numbers rather than take them on trust.
Further aircraft are due into inventory. When enquiring, send the three legs you actually fly most often — that is what determines whether any given airframe fits.