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The C Series jets were renamed to be in line with Airbus's offerings. The shareholding is Airbus 50.1%, Bombardier 31% and Investissement Québec 19%.īombardier and Airbus announce that Airbus will have majority stake-holding in the partnership. Swiss fly the first commercial service of a CS100 from Zurich to London City Airport, taking advantage of the newly acquired steep approach certification.īombardier form a partnership around the C Series programme. awarded certification to the CS100 for steep approaches.

The CS100 was the largest aircraft to have landed at LCY.

Steep landing approach tests (5.5 degrees) were conducted by the CS100 at London City Airport (LCY). The CS300 receives type certification from the F.A.A.Īir Baltic perform the first commercial service with the CS300 from Riga to Amsterdam. The first CS300 is delivered to Air Baltic. This means that pilots qualified on one are also qualified on the other which saves airlines a lot of extra pilot training hours. award common rated certification to both the CS100 and CS300. Swiss commence their first commercial service with the CS100 from Zurich to Paris. Transport Canada awards type certification for the CS300. In a handover ceremony at Montreal's Mirabel Airport, Swiss Global Airlines received their first Bombardier CS100. Type certification is awarded by the F.A.A. Transport Canada awards type certification for the Bombardier CS100. Initial findings were that the aircraft exceeded expectations on noise, performance, economic guarantees and possibly even a greater than expected range.Īt the Paris Air Show Bombardier released updated specs which showed many improvements over the original specs.Īll certification tests for the CS100 were completed.įirst phase of route testing is completed with the CS100 achieving 100% dispatch reliability. The CS300 makes its maiden flight from Montreal's Mirabel Airport. This caused Bombardier to miss Farnborough 2014 which was critical for show casing the new aircraft.įlight testing resumed once a lubrication problem had been found and corrected in the engines.ĬS100 test aircraft completed 1,000 test flying hours. Uncontained engine failure suspends further testing until the cause and resolution are found. Maiden flight of the CS100 from Montreal's Mirabel Airport. Transport Canada gives a approval for high speed taxi testing. The first almost completed airframe was put on display. These options were dropped with the ER configuration becoming the standard offering for the CS300. There were to be some extra options for the CS300, namely the XT for Extra thrust and ER for Extended Range.

Main Fuselage – China Aviation Industry Corporate (AVIC)'s affiliate Shenyang Aircraft Corporate.īombardier changed the aircraft designation from C110 to CS100 and C130 to CS300.

Final Assembly – Mirabel, Montreal, Québec.

Qatar, Lufthansa and ILFC expressed their interest.Ī press conference was held on the eve of the Farnborough Air Show to launch the C Series and an order for 60 aircraft with options for 30 more was received from Lufthansa. It would be sold as having a 20% improved fuel burn and 15% better cash operating costs than current offerings on the market. A small team was left to continue working the business case.īombardier announced that work would once again begin on the C Series.īombardier chose the Pratt and Whitney geared turbo fan PW1000G rated at 23,000lb (102kN) for the C Series.īombardier's board authorised formal sales proposals of the C Series. The plan was for a first flight in 2008 and entry into commercial service in 2010.īombardier announced that the current market did not warrant a launch of this magnitude and company focus would be redirected. As was becoming the norm in those days, 20% of the materials would be composite, with the advantage of lighter weight yet high strength. It would feature a cabin with enough headroom to stand up, side stick flight controls and fly-by-wire technology. The C Series aimed to replace the aging DC9 / MD80, Fokker 100, Boeing 737 Classic and BAe 146. The range would be around 3,200 nautical miles(NM) and the seat configuration would be 2x3, that is two seats on one side of the aisle and 3 on the other. There would be two variants, one for a 110-115 seat aircraft and the other for 130-135 seats. On 08 March 2004, Bombardier began a new feasibility study into the C Series jet. At the same time, Airbus had launched the Airbus A318, the smallest member of the A320 family, Boeing had launched the 737-600NG and Embraer of Brazil had launched their E-Jet series. By the end of 2000, however, Bombardier had all but shelved the BRJ-X plan in favour of stretching the CRJ-700 to the CRJ-900.