Hawker 800XP / 850XP
Midsize Jet - 8 passengers, 2,825 nm published range
About the Hawker 800XP / 850XP
The Hawker 800XP is the most numerous midsize business jet on charter in the United States, and the aircraft most brokers reach for when a client wants a stand-up-ish cabin and transcontinental reach without super-midsize money. Two Honeywell TFE731 engines take eight passengers about 2,580 nm at maximum payload. The flat-floor cabin is wider than a Learjet's and the type is supported everywhere, which is why so many of them are still flying thirty years on.
Who charters it
The midsize default. There are more of these on Part 135 certificates than almost anything else in the class, so availability and price are both good, and at roughly $4,000 to $5,500 an hour it undercuts a 900XP for a cabin that is dimensionally identical. Two things to watch. Range is the reason the 900XP exists: this aircraft does about 2,580 nm at maximum payload against the 900XP's 2,755 nm with eight aboard, so a full-cabin transcontinental leg into a headwind is a real conversation rather than a formality. And the airframes span 1995 to 2013 across three variants, so cabin condition, avionics and whether it has winglets vary a lot between tails. Charter hourly figures shown here are non-binding estimate ranges, not quotes.
Specifications
- Class
- Midsize
- Manufacturer
- Raytheon / Hawker Beechcraft (originally British Aerospace)
- Published range
- 2,825 nm
- Range with four passengers
- 2,580 nm
- Reserve-adjusted (85% of four-passenger range)
- 2,193 nm
- Seats
- 8
- Service ceiling
- 41,000 ft
- Takeoff field
- 5,650 ft
- Cabin height
- 5'9"
- Cabin width
- 6'0"
- Cabin length
- 21'4"
- Indicative rate
- Est. $4,000 - $5,500/hr
- Production
- Out of production
Specifications current as of 2026-09-28. Published range assumes still air, an optimum profile, and a light payload. Rates are indicative and vary with routing, availability, and operator.
Worth knowing
- The most numerous midsize jet on United States charter certificates
- Two Honeywell TFE731-5BR turbofans rated at about 4,660 lbf each
- Flat-floor cabin, dimensionally identical to the later 900XP
- Both published range figures state their basis, which is rare in this class
- Design lineage running back to the de Havilland DH.125 of 1962, so support is everywhere
Colorado mountain airports: limited
No mountain-airport operating record is recorded here. The 5,650 ft sea-level takeoff distance is nearly 700 ft longer than the 900XP's, which is the same airframe with more thrust, and that gap is exactly what density altitude widens. The 41,000 ft ceiling is fine; the constraint is runway and climb at weight on a hot day. Treat ASE, EGE and TEX as an operator question and get a runway analysis rather than reasoning from the sea-level figure.
Planning guidance only. The operator, the AFM performance data, and conditions on the day are the final authority.
Is the Hawker 800XP / 850XP right for your trip?
See how far it reaches from your departure airport, or send us the trip and we will price it against the alternatives.