Citation aircraft, guided by people who fly them
Buy or sell with operator-level expertise — from the Mustang and the CJ family to the midsize XLS.
Our Citation expertise spans the left seat, the hangar, and the closing table.
Real fuel burns, honest dispatch reliability, and the maintenance events we've lived through firsthand — the difference between selling an aircraft and understanding one.
The fleet
Mustang to XLS. One specialty.
Every variant in between, from single-pilot light jets to a true midsize cabin — each known by its real numbers, not its brochure.
The Citation family
Aircraft we know by heart
Explore the Citations we specialize in — specifications, real-world performance, and honest guidance on each.
Citation Mustang
Citation CJ
Citation CJ1 / CJ1+
Citation M2
Citation CJ2 / CJ2+
Citation CJ3 / CJ3+
Citation CJ4
Citation XLS / XLS+ / Excel
The Citations above are the ones we fly and manage ourselves. Our representation reaches the full family — legacy straight-wing models through the Latitude — with the same discipline.
Guidance
The Citation buyer's guide
Most of what we know, we're glad to share — a plain-spoken guide to choosing, inspecting, and owning a Citation, written by people who operate them, not just list them.
Read the guideHow we help
Sellers and buyers, represented properly
On either side of a deal, the same discipline: we meet the market where it is. Trends and comps inform the number, but reading the live market — what's actually trading, and what an airplane is worth today — is what gets the deal done.
Sell-side representation
We price against live market data, present the aircraft honestly, and manage the transaction end to end — so it moves quickly and closes cleanly, at the number it should.
Buy-side acquisition
We draw on decades of Citation operation and a network that reaches well beyond public listings to find the right airplane — then quarterback the pre-buy and the close on your behalf.
Buy-side acquisition
We bring the airplane home.
A CJ2+ over Greenland, mid-ferry from the United Kingdom to its new owner in the States — an acquisition handled end to end, through the delivery flight.
How we work
From first call to delivery flight
A practical, disciplined process for buying the right Citation — not just the available one.
Define the right model
We start with how you actually intend to fly — routes, payload, runway needs, passenger expectations, budget, and ownership goals — then identify which Citation models best fit the mission.
Search and compare the market
We conduct a targeted worldwide search, including on- and off-market opportunities, then evaluate and compare the strongest candidates by condition, equipment, maintenance status, engine programs, pricing, and real-world suitability.
Secure the aircraft
We submit informed offers on your behalf, negotiate the key terms, lock in the aircraft under a purchase agreement, and coordinate the visual inspection and demonstration flight.
Manage the pre-buy and closing
We supervise the pre-purchase inspection, help interpret and negotiate findings, and guide the transaction through closing, delivery, and transition into ownership.
Selling? We run the same discipline in reverse: realistic pricing, discreet exposure to the right buyers, and managing the buyer's pre-buy through closing.
Cost of ownership
Real numbers, before you ask
We track operating costs across the fleet. Here's an actual CJ2 budget at 150 hours a year — not brochure figures.
Insights
From the flight deck, in writing
Operator-grade perspective on buying, owning, and flying Citations — engine programs, model trade-offs, and the real arithmetic of ownership.
Our home base · KCPS
A hangar built for Citations.
Our brand-new 13,300-square-foot hangar at St. Louis Downtown Airport (KCPS) was designed around the aircraft we know best — with an executive lounge, a conference room, and a private entrance and ramp. Centrally located and minutes from downtown, it's where we base, manage, and care for Citations.
Who you're working with
Pilots and aircraft managers, not salespeople.
The Citation Jet Exchange is a specialist practice backed by the pilots and managers of Gateway Jets — people who fly, manage, and maintain Citations every day. That operating experience is what you're really engaging: real fuel burns, honest dispatch reliability, and an eye for the maintenance events a standard pre-buy can miss.
It's anchored by Corey Tomczak, who has flown Citations since 2008 — beginning in a CJ2 — and today holds an ATP with more than 7,000 total flight hours, including more than 2,200 in Citations. He built the practice after watching buyers make expensive mistakes for want of honest, operator-grade information.
He is also an owner, not just an operator — more than sixteen years buying and running airplanes for personal and business use. He knows the rewards and the headaches firsthand, including what it feels like to write the checks.
Our representation runs across the full Citation family — the legacy straight-wing models and the Latitude included — and the discipline doesn't change with the type.
Every engagement is run the way we'd run our own: transparent, diligent, and unhurried.
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Start a conversation
Buying, selling, or simply weighing the numbers — tell us where you are, and we'll take it from there.
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Tell us about your mission
Buying, selling, or simply weighing the numbers — start here.