BOMBARDIER INC BD-100-1A10

BD-100-1A10 is the type certificate designation for the Challenger 300, the Challenger 350 and the Challenger 3500 — a super-midsize business jet carrying eight or nine passengers 3,200 nautical miles at 470 knots in a flat-floor stand-up cabin. It crosses the United States non-stop, or the North Atlantic with a stop, and it is the workhorse of the top end of the fractional and charter fleets. The Challenger 300 entered service in January 2004 with HTF7000 engines and the Pro Line 21 flight deck. From mid-2014 the aircraft delivered is the Challenger 350, with canted winglets, HTF7350 engines giving about 7 per cent more thrust and the Pro Line 21 Advanced deck with four large displays. From the second half of 2022 it is the Challenger 3500, which adds autothrottles and a redesigned cabin. A 2015 aircraft is a Challenger 350 with winglets, the Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Advanced flight deck and the uprated HTF7350 engines.

This is corporate flight department territory rather than owner-pilot territory. It is flown by two professional pilots, it needs a hangar, and the annual fixed cost before a single flight is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars; variable costs run well over $3,000 an hour in fuel and maintenance reserves. What it buys is genuine transcontinental capability with a cabin people can work and sleep in, and one of the better dispatch-reliability records in the class. The type rating is CL-30. Values for aircraft of this generation depend heavily on engine programme enrolment, cabin and avionics configuration, and whether the aircraft has been maintained in a fractional fleet, which usually means high cycles but immaculate records.