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Private and business aircraft safety ranking

How safe is each private jet?

Business jets and turboprops ranked by the chance of a fatal accident on a flight, for charter passengers, owners and companies.

These aircraft fly private, charter, corporate, air ambulance and training trips that no flight statistics tell apart, so we count every fatal accident since 2008 except deliberate acts, attacks on the aircraft and accidents on military, test and illegal flights, and divide by all civil flights of the type since 2008. Most types have flown only a few million flights, so each score comes with a likely range. Types with too little record of their own are listed without a rank. The operator and the crew matter more than the type. Full methodology

The safety lineup18 aircraft in service · safer to the right
Aircraft type
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33 families

Aircraft families with safety scores. Use the column buttons to sort.
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1
Bombardier Challenger 300/350/3500Bombardier · since 2004
74B, Good
2
Embraer Phenom 300Embraer · since 2009
72B, Good
3
Cessna Citation Excel/XLSCessna (Textron Aviation) · since 1998
71B, Good
4
Learjet 40/45/70/75Learjet (Bombardier) · since 1998
68C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Cessna Citation MustangCessna (Textron Aviation) · since 2006
61C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Gulfstream IV/G450Gulfstream Aerospace · since 1987
61C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Cessna CitationJet (CJ1-CJ4, M2)Cessna (Textron Aviation) · since 1993
61C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Learjet 60Learjet (Bombardier) · since 1993
60C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Cessna Citation V/Ultra/EncoreCessna (Textron Aviation) · since 1989
59C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Bombardier Challenger 600-650Bombardier (Canadair) · since 1980
57C, Fair
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Hawker 800/900 (BAe 125-700/800)British Aerospace / Raytheon / Hawker Beechcraft · since 1977
57C, Fair
12
Pilatus PC-12Pilatus · since 1994
54D, Weak
13
Beechcraft King Air 300/350/360Beechcraft (Textron Aviation) · since 1984
51D, Weak
14
Beechcraft King Air 200/250/260Beechcraft (Textron Aviation) · since 1974
49D, Weak
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Learjet 55Learjet · since 1981
48D, Weak
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Learjet 31/35/36Learjet · since 1974
48D, Weak
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Beechcraft King Air 90Beechcraft (Textron Aviation) · since 1964
39F, Poor
Shared rankWithin 1 point of other aircraft types: the difference is not meaningful.More in the glossary
Daher (Socata) TBM 700/850/900Daher (Socata) · since 1990
38F, Poor
Not ranked yet. These types have fewer than 3 million flights and at most one fatal accident counted, so their scores are too unsure to rank: each page gives the likely range.
Not ranked
Dassault Falcon 2000Dassault Aviation · since 1995
85A, Excellent
Not ranked
Bombardier Global (Express to 8000)Bombardier · since 1999
85A, Excellent
Not ranked
Cessna Citation SovereignCessna (Textron Aviation) · since 2004
84B, Good
Not ranked
Gulfstream V/G550Gulfstream Aerospace · since 1997
83B, Good
Not ranked
Cessna Citation Latitude/LongitudeCessna (Textron Aviation) · since 2015
80B, Good
Not ranked78B, Good
Not ranked
Dassault Falcon 7X/8XDassault Aviation · since 2007
77B, Good
Not ranked
Gulfstream G650/G700/G800Gulfstream Aerospace · since 2012
77B, Good
Not ranked
Beechjet 400/Hawker 400XP (MU-300 Diamond)Beechcraft (Raytheon, Hawker Beechcraft) · since 1981
77B, Good
Not ranked
Pilatus PC-24Pilatus Aircraft · since 2018
75B, Good
Not ranked
Dassault Falcon 900Dassault Aviation · since 1986
71B, Good
Not ranked
Cessna Citation XCessna (Textron Aviation) · since 1996
69C, Fair
Not ranked
Gulfstream G200/G280Gulfstream Aerospace (Galaxy Aerospace, IAI) · since 1999
67C, Fair
Not ranked
Embraer Phenom 100Embraer · since 2008
65C, Fair
Not ranked
HondaJetHonda Aircraft Company · since 2015
60C, Fair
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