A supersonic business jet (SSBJ) is a small business jet, intended to travel at speeds above Mach 1.0. Typically intended to transport about ten passengers, SSBJs are about the same size as traditional subsonic business jets. Larger commercial supersonic transports such as the Aérospatiale/British Aerospace Concorde and Tupolev Tu-144 'Charger' were fraught with high costs, and noise and environmental concerns. Several manufacturers (notably Cessna) believe that many of these concerns can be dealt with at a smaller scale. In addition, it is believed that small groups of high-value passengers (such as executives or heads of state) will find value in higher speed transport. Business jet, private jet or, in slang, bizjet is a term describing a jet aircraft, usually of modest size, designed for transporting small groups of business people for commercial reasons at a time convenient to their business needs. ... An F/A-18 Hornet breaking the sound barrier. ... A supersonic transport (SST) is a civil aircraft designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed of sound. ... British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ... The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO reporting name: Charger) was a supersonic airliner constructed under management of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev (1925–2001). ... Cessna Aircraft Company, located in Wichita, Kansas, is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, from small two-seat, single-engine airplanes to business jets. ... Queen Elizabeth II, is the Head of State of 16 countries including: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Jamaica, New Zealand and the Bahamas, as well as crown colonies and overseas territories of the United Kingdom. ...

No SSBJs are currently available, but several manufacturers are working on or have worked on designs, including but not limited to:

• Aerion SBJ
• Cessna design of unknown nature.
• Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21
• Tupolev Tu-444
• Supersonic Aerospace International QSST[1][2][3]

The Aeron SBJ The Aerion SBJ is a concept for a supersonic business jet, designed by Aerion Corporation. ... Cessna Aircraft Company, located in Wichita, Kansas, is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, from small two-seat, single-engine airplanes to business jets. ... Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 was an experimental Russian-American supersonic business jet In the early 1990s, Gulfstream Aerospace and The Sukhoi Design Bureau of Moscow began a joint effort to develop a supersonic small business jet, code named the S-21. ... The Tupolev Tu-444 supersonic business jet. ...

References

• "Supersonic Business Jets Announced." Flug Revue. December, 2004.
• "Bizjets a ‘commodity’ says Teal Group study." Kirby J. Harrison, Aviation International News. 2001.
• "Supersonic business jet announcement at NBAA." Ken Vandruf, Wichita Business Journal. September 27, 2004.