Bombardier celebrated its 40th year of operations in Tucson, Arizona. Occupying almost 1 million square feet (92,900 square metres) of total hangar space, the Tucson Air Centre is the largest of Bombardier’s nine Aircraft Service Centres and services both Bombardier commercial and business aircraft, and employs over 900 engineers, technicians...

Bombardier Business Aircraft announced its plan to establish a new, wholly owned Service Centre in the London, United Kingdom area. The Bombardier Service Centre will offer complete tip-to-tail heavy maintenance capabilities, and will complement the Bombardier Business Aircraft Service and Support Network in the United Kingdom. Located at...

Bombardier confirmed that Flexjet, LLC is the previously undisclosed customer that purchased 20 Challenger 350jets. Bombardier and Flexjet, LLC celebrated the news with a special ceremony at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva. The order, announced on April 1, 2016, is valued at approximately $534 million US,...

Bombardier Business Aircraft reaffirmed its commitment to the success of the Learjet product family by announcing the creation of a dedicated, worldwide sales team with the Learjet 70 and Learjet 75 aircraft as its singular focus. To that end, Mike Fahey is appointed Vice President, Learjet Aircraft Sales, assuming overall responsibility and...

Mirkka Lampinen was appointed Sales Director, Eastern Europe at Bombardier Business Aircraft in March 2015. She is responsible for Global, Challenger and Learjet business aircraft sales in Central and Eastern Europe. Mrs. Lampinen joined Bombardier in 2005. She has held several positions with increasing responsibility in the Market Analysis and...

Bombardier Business Aircraft announced that its Service Centre Network team will provide hardware sales and installations for SmartSky 4G, a new network taking flight later this year. SmartSky’s patented 4G beamforming technology delivers a signal that locks onto an aircraft, and by using 60 MHz of spectrum on an air-to-ground (ATG) platform,...

Bombardier Business Aircraft and Aurora Jet Partners of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada joined forces today to mark a major milestone in business aviation – the delivery of the 75th Bombardier Learjet 75 business jet. The milestone was reached slightly more than two years after the first Learjet 75 aircraft, the fastest light business jet on the...

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced that lessor GE Capital Aviation Services (“GECAS”) has signed a firm purchase agreement for five Q400 NextGen aircraft and has also taken options on an additional 10 Q400 NextGen aircraft. Based on the list price of the Q400 NextGen aircraft, the firm order is valued at approximately $160 million US....

The high-performance Bombardier Learjet 75 aircraft has set a world speed record in its class, flying round trip between New York and Los Angeles. The flight, piloted by two members of Bombardier’s flight operations demonstration team, Ed Hillis and Jeff Triphahn, was staged to mark the 50th anniversary of Clay Lacy’s 1965 record-setting...

Q & A's with Bombardier representatives Mirkka Lampinen (ML), Sales Director for Eastern Europe, Bombardier Aerospace and Thomas Fissellier (TF), Manager Market Intelligence and Analysis, Bombardier Aerospace.   How do you see the market in CEE region? (ML) Based on my daily interactions with the Central and Eastern...

Bombardier Business Aircraft announced the expansion of its Customer Response Team (CRT) mobile fleet to include a fully equipped service support van based at the Amsterdam Service Centre in the Netherlands. This marks the 15th addition of a mobile unit to our worldwide fleet. The addition follows the deployment of a CRT van in Nice, France, where...

Bombardier and Tianjin Airport Economic Area announced today that they have officially signed definitive agreements confirming their joint venture and have commenced construction of a maintenance facility for Bombardier Business Aircraft, to be located in Tianjin, China.  Leaders from both sides celebrated the venture with an official...

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and Fly Mojo Sdn Bhd announced that the parties have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the sale and purchase of 20 CS100 aircraft with options for an additional 20 CS100 aircraft. The announcement was made in parallel with the Government of Malaysia’s announcement at LIMA on a new airline, flymojo, which will...

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced that Mesa Air Group, Inc. of Phoenix, Arizona (Mesa Airlines) has signed a firm purchase agreement for seven CRJ900 NextGen aircraft. The transaction was concluded on the sidelines of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) Americas 2015 conference held in Mesa’s hometown. Based...

Another major milestone in Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft program was reached today with the maiden flight of the CS300 airliner. The technologically advanced CSeries aircraft will provide operators with an all-new family of single-aisle mainline jets specifically designed for the 100- to 149-seat market segment. The CS300 airliner – bearing...