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Bombardier Aviation is a division of Bombardier Inc. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada. [2] Its most popular aircraft included the Dash 8 Series 400, CRJ100/200/440, and CRJ700/900/1000 lines of regional airliners, and the newer CSeries (also known as the Airbus A220).
On May 18, 2021, the Global 7500/8000 series during testing became the first business jet to break the sound barrier and the fastest civil aircraft since the Concorde. [4] With deliveries of 138 business jets in 2023, Bombardier was the number one manufacturer of business jets in the world. [5]
In June 2019, with 84 total cars delivered, Bombardier announced it would be moving production from their New York-based plant to a new facility shared with Hitachi Rail in Pittsburg, California in the East Bay. [18] In January 2021, BART stopped accepting new cars pending reliability improvements to be made by Bombardier. [65]
The company added private helicopter leasing and charter services and formed a private helicopter division that sells fractional, lease and on-demand charter access to its fleet of owned and operated Sikorsky S-76 private helicopters serving locations throughout the Northeastern United States and Florida. [citation needed]
Bombardier's major shareholder, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, had already agreed to the sale. [51] [52] In July 2020, the European Commission approved the sale. [53] Bombardier Inc. announced on 1 December 2020 that the transaction would be closed on 29 January 2021 for €4.4 billion. [54] [55]
Bombardier announced the entry-into-service of the Global 5500 in June 2020. [57] The first Global 5500 was delivered in July 2020, to " longtime Bombardier customer Unicorp National Developments, headquartered in Orlando, Florida." [58] In 2023, the Global 5500 costs $47.4 million, [59] while the Global 6500 costs $58 million. [60]
In January 1942, the Defense Plant Corporation, a corporation entity of the Federal government, bought the school from Harold Darr. With the United States now in the war, the size of the classes increased, requiring an expansion of the school's facilities. Construction began on a ground training building in May and an additional barracks in June.
In June, Bombardier launched the sub-$10 million Learjet 75 Liberty to compete with the Cessna CitationJet and Embraer Phenom 300 from 2020, with six seats down from eight, no standard APU or lavatory sink, but still Part 25 and not FAR Part 23 certified, with a maximum payload of 2,910 lb (1,320 kg) and a range of 2,080 nmi (3,850 km).