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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. 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 (formerly Canadair)

Bombardier Challenger

Bombardier Challenger 605

Bombardier Global 5000

Bombardier Global Express

Bombardier Learjet (formerly Gates Learjet)

Learjet 23

Learjet 24

Learjet 25

Learjet 28

Learjet 29

Learjet 31

Learjet 35

Learjet 36

Learjet 40

Learjet 45

Learjet 55

Learjet 60

British Aerospace (formerly Hawker Siddeley)

British Aerospace BAe 125

Cessna

Cessna 500 Citation I

Cessna 501 Citation ISP

Cessna 510 Citation Mustang

Cessna 525 CJ1

Cessna 525A CJ2

Cessna 525B CJ3

Cessna 550 Citation II

Cessna 550 Citation Bravo

Cessna 551 Citation IISP

Cessna S550 Citation SII

Cessna 560 Citation V, Citation Ultra, Citation Encore, Citation Encore+

Cessna Citation 560XL Excel, XLS, XLS+

Cessna 620

Cessna 650 Citation III, Citation VI, Citation VII

Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign

Cessna 750 Citation X

Dassault

Falcon 10 and 100

Falcon 20 and 200

Falcon 30

Falcon 50

Falcon 900

Falcon 2000

Falcon 7X

Eclipse Aviation

Eclipse 500

Embraer

Embraer Phenom 100

Embraer Phenom 300

Embraer Legacy

Lineage

General Dynamics (formerly Grumman) Gulfstream)

Gulfstream G100

Gulfstream G150

Gulfstream G450

Hawker Beechcraft

Beechcraft Premier I

Beechjet 400

Hawker 800

Hawker 4000

Hamburger Flugzeugbau

HFB-320 Hansa Jet

Israeli Aircraft Industries

IAI Astra

IAI Westwind

IAI Galaxy

Lockheed

Lockheed JetStar

North American later Rockwell

North American SabrelinerFurther Information

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