ExecuJet Australia (Sydney Kingsford Smith) has retired its last Cessna Aircraft Company business jet, a Citation III, while South African sister company ExecuJet Air Charter (EXD, Johannesburg Lanseria) has stopped operating its two remaining Bombardier Globals, ch-aviation research has revealed.
The Citation III, N77SA (msn 650-0101), had been parked at Sydney Bankstown since March 2022, then under its Australian registration VH-XLK. The 38.8-year-old aircraft was re-registered in the United States for non-commercial operations. It was ferried from Bankstown via Alice Springs, Darwin, Denpasar, Krabi, Nagpur, Sharjah, and Tököl to Budapest over the course of September 6-10, 2024, and remains parked in Hungary.
The type was the only Textron Aviation jet operated by ExecuJet Australia.
The South African unit's Global Express, T7-SMF (msn 9074), operated its last flight, then as ZS-SMF, from Harare International to Johannesburg Lanseria on June 21, 2024. The 24.1-year-old aircraft was transferred to San Marino's McDan Aviation and was flown from Lanseria via Lagos to Sharjah on August 13-14. It operated for the first time under McDan's 'MDN' code on September 30. It is the only Global aircraft in the Sammarinese operator's fleet.
The other Bombardier Business Aircraft Global aircraft formerly operated by ExecuJet Air Charter, Global 5000 T7-TDZ (msn 9516), was transferred to Avcon Jet San Marino (VAJ, Rimini) under the same registration in early September 2024. It flew from Lagos via London Luton to Teterboro on September 24-25. Avcon Jet San Marino already operates two other Global 5000s, one Global 5500, and one Global Express, among other types.
Following the transfer of the two Globals, ExecuJet Air Charter no longer has any aircraft of this family in its fleet, although it continues to operate, among others, a fleet of Challengers from the same manufacturer.
