Business jet
Business jet, private jet or, colloquially, bizjet is a term describing a jet aircraft, usually of smaller size, designed for transporting groups of business people. Business jets may be adapted for other roles, such as the evacuation of casualties or express parcel deliveries, and a few may be used by public bodies, governments or the armed forces. The more formal terms of corporate jet, executive jet, VIP transport or business jet tend to be used by the firms that build, sell, buy and charter these aircraft.
Background
Almost all production business jets, such as General Dynamics' Gulfstream and the Gates Lear Jet (now built by Bombardier), have had two or three engines, though the Jetstar, an early business jet, had four. Advances in engine reliability and power have rendered four-engine designs obsolete, and only Dassault Aviation still builds three-engine models (in the Falcon line). The emerging market for so-called "very light jets" and "personal jets", has seen the introduction (at least on paper) of several single-engine designs as well.
Almost all business jets have rear-mounted engines, because the wing (mounted low for performance reasons) is too near the ground for engines to be slung underneath it.
Airliners are sometimes converted into luxury business jets. Such converted aircraft are often used by celebrities with a large entourage or press corps, or by sports teams, but airliners often face operational restrictions based on runway length or local noise restrictions.
A focus of development is at the low end of the market with small models, many far cheaper than existing business jets. Many of these fall into the very light jet (VLJ) category and are used by the air taxi industry. Cessna has developed the Mustang, a six-place twinjet (2 crew + 4 passengers) available for $2.55 million USD. A number of smaller manufacturers have planned even cheaper jets; the first is the Eclipse 500 which has become available at around 1.5 million USD. It remains to be seen whether the new jet manufacturers will complete their designs, or find the market required to sell their jets at the low prices planned.
There are approximately 11,000 business jets in the worldwide fleet with the vast majority of them based in the United States or owned by US companies. The European market is the next largest, with growing activity in Asia and Central America. There is a pre-owned marketplace in which aircraft are bought and sold based on their immediate deliverability because new aircraft orders often take two to three years for delivery.
Since 1996 the term "fractional jet" has been used in connection with business aircraft owned by a consortium of companies. Costly overheads such as flight crew, hangarage and maintenance can be shared through such arrangements.
Classes
The business jet industry groups the jets into five loosely-defined "classes", Heavy, Super Mid-size, Mid-size, Light, and Very Light.
List of Business jets
- Airbus
- Airbus A319CJ
- Boeing
- Boeing Business Jet
- Bombardier
- Learjet 23
- Learjet 24
- Learjet 25
- Learjet 28
- Learjet 29
- Learjet 31
- Learjet 35
- Learjet 36
- Learjet 40
- Learjet 45
- Learjet 55
- Learjet 60
- Learjet 85
- Challenger 300
- Challenger 600
- Challenger 601
- Challenger 604
- Challenger 605
- Challenger 800
- Challenger 850
- Global 5000
- Global Express
- Global Express XRS
- British Aerospace (formerly de Havilland and Hawker Siddeley)
- British Aerospace BAe 125
- British Aerospace BAe 146 Statesman
- Cessna
- 500 Citation I
- 501 Citation I/SP
- 510 Citation Mustang
- 525 CitationJet CJ1
- 525 CitationJet CJ1+
- 525A CitationJet CJ2
- 525A CitationJet CJ2+
- 525B CitationJet CJ3
- 525C CitationJet CJ4
- 550 Citation II
- 551 Citation II/SP
- S550 Citation S/II
- 550 Citation Bravo
- 560 Citation V
- 560 Citation Ultra
- 560 Citation Encore
- 560 Citation Encore+
- 560 XL Citation Excel
- 560 XL Citation XLS
- 560 XL Citation XLS+
- 650 Citation III
- 650 Citation IV
- 650 Citation VI
- 650 Citation VII
- 680 Citation Sovereign
- 750 Citation X
- 850 Citation Columbus
- Dassault
- Falcon 10 and 100
- Falcon 20 and 200
- Falcon 30
- Falcon 50
- Falcon 900
- Falcon 2000
- Falcon 7X
- Eclipse Aviation
- Eclipse 500
- Embraer
- Phenom 100
- Phenom 300
- Legacy 450
- Legacy 500
- Legacy 600
- Lineage 1000
- Grob
- SPn
- Gulfstream
- Gulfstream II
- Gulfstream III
- Gulfstream IV
- Gulfstream V
- G100
- G150
- G200
- G300
- G350
- G400
- G450
- G500
- G550
- G650
- Hawker Beechcraft
- Beechcraft Premier
- Hawker 400
- Hawker 750
- Hawker 800
- Hawker 850
- Hawker 900
- Hawker 1000
- Hawker 4000
- Hamburger Flugzeugbau
- HFB-320 Hansa Jet
- Honda Aircraft Company a subsidiary of Honda Motor Company
- Honda HA-420 HondaJet
- Israeli Aircraft Industries
- IAI Astra
- IAI Westwind
- IAI Galaxy
- Lockheed
- Lockheed JetStar
- North American later Rockwell
- North American Sabreliner
- Sino Swearingen
- SJ30-2
- Tupolev
- Tu-334
- Yakovlev
- Yak-40
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