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Directory: business aircraft pany may offer corporate versions of the 70- to 100-seat regional airliner. G BUSINESS JET Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, PO Box 3707, Seattle, Washington 98124-2207, USA Tel +1 (206) 655 1131 Fax +1 (206) 655 7004 Website www.boeing.com/bbj Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) continues to dominate the widebody corporate-jet mar ket with its 737-700/800 hybrids the BBJ and BBJ2. Although sales have slowed sig nificantly in the past 24 months, notably from its largest customer Netjets, fresh demand is coming from airline and charter operators. So far 83 BBJs and BBJ2s have been officially delivered from Boeing Commercial Airplanes to Boeing Business Jets, of which 68 aircraft are in service with 51 operators, with production sold out to mid-2005. Boeing Business Jets and Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics are teaming to provide an enhanced vision system for the BBJ. BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE 400 Chemin de la Cote Vertu, Dorval, Quebec H4S 1YR Canada Tel +1 (514) 855 5000 Fax +1 (514) 855 7401 Website www. bombardieraerospace.com Bombardier offers the Challenger, Global and Learjet family of business jets. The Challenger 300 was certificated in 2003 less than four years from its formal launch in June 1999 as the Bombardier Continental. The aircraft entered service in January with the manufacturer's fractional- ownership subsidiary Flexjet. The Dallas, Texas-based operator has since taken deliv ery of four more production aircraft, while the first Challenger 300 to be delivered to a traditional corporate customer was handed over in April 2004. Bombardier says the $17.4 million air craft meets or exceeds its original design guarantees. Final assembly of the Challenger 300, which fills the gap between the mid-size Learjet 60 and large- cabin Challenger 604, will be moved from Wichita to Montreal as part of Bombardier's plan to transfer production of the Challenger 300 to its Canadian plant by the end of 2004 or early 2005. Completion of the aircraft is scheduled to transfer from Tucson, Arizona to Montreal by the first quarter of 2005. Tucson has become Bombardier's West Coast service centre, complementing West Virginia Air Center on the East Coast. Bombardier clinched Transport Canada certification in March for its Global 5000 and expects European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval this month and US certification at the end of the year for the super-large business jet. The $33.5 mil lion Rolls-Royce BR710-powered aircraft is a derivative of the ultra-long-range Global Express with a shorter fuselage and reduced fuel capacity. The aircraft is sched uled for service entry in the fourth quarter. The manufacturer has been working to refresh its Learjet line. The manufacturer delivered its first Learjet 40 light business jet on schedule in February, six months after certification. The aircraft replaces the out-of-production Learjet 31A as Bombardier's entry-level business jet. The Honeywell TFE731-20-powered Learjet 40 is derived from the super-light Learjet 45, offering a shorter-fuselage seating for six passengers. Bombardier's Learjet 45XR, an increased-performance Learjet 45, entered service last year. The aircraft offers a higher take-off weight to increase range and uprated engines to improve hot-and-high performance. Maximum take-off weight is increased by 450kg, which allows the air craft to carry "a true eight passengers and full fuel" and gives the 45XR an 830km range advantage over the rival Cessna Citation Excel. The engines are uprated Honeywell TFE731-20BRs, providing a faster time to climb, higher cruise speeds and improved balanced field lengths at higher temperatures. Both the Learjet 45 The Bombardier Learjet 45XR will fly faster and further than the standard Learjet 45. Both models have new interiors and 45XR have new interiors, with increased legroom and greater seat width. The Universal UNS-1E flight-management system is also fitted. Bombardier is planning to offer the Thales Avionics/CMC Electronics second- generation" enhanced vision system for the Global Express. Certification and first installations are scheduled for the first half of 2005. Bombardier also offers the transcontinental Challenger 604, the com pany's highest-selling Challenger with over 600 delivered to date; and the Challenger 800, formerly the Canadair Special Edition and corporate version of the CRJ200 regional jet. PO Box 7706, One Cessna Boulevard, Wichita, Kansas 67277-7706, USA Tel +1 (316) 517 6000 Fax +1 (316) 517 6640 Website www.cessna.textron.com Cessna offers the Citation range of busi nesses jets of which over 4,000 have been delivered since production began. Four new products are in various stages of development at Cessna's Wichita base. The six-seat Mustang, which marks Cessna's entry into the very light jet mar ket, is scheduled for first flight in May 2005, leading to US certification in June 2006. Late last month the company began engine testing the Mustang's Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F engine on a CJ1 testbed. The all-metal Mustang resembles the entry-level CJ1 - and is only slightly smaller overall - but has an all-new straight wing. The four-passenger cabin is slightly smaller, but includes a toilet. The $2.6 million aircraft also includes the Garmin GlOO integrated glass cockpit. Cessna has received over 220 firm orders for the Mustang to date. With 122 firm sales the CJ3 is also set to make its mark in the light aircraft category. The first production CJ3 rolled off the Wichita assembly line in February and Cessna is gearing up for certification and www.flightinternational.com FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 18-24 MAY 2004 69
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