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The Single Pilot Citation is Dead | EP 60
For more than four decades, one story helped define the legacy Citation market:
This is the jet you can fly yourself.
Your first jet. Your hands on the throttles. Your family in the back. Nobody required in the right seat.
At the end of September 2026, that story changed.
The FAA ended the single-pilot exemptions that allowed qualifying pilots to operate a group of Part 25-certified legacy Citations without the second pilot their type certificates otherwise required.
VREF’s analysis puts the affected U.S. civil fleet at 1,212 aircraft.
In this episode:
Which Citation models are affected—and…
The skinny
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