Bombardier Speeds to 200 Global 7500 Deliveries

Bombardier’s 7,700-nm Global 7500 has reached a new plateau: the 200th delivery to a customer. The airframer announced the milestone this morning, a marker reached just six years after the jet entered service in 2018.

Since then, the Global 7500 fleet has amassed 200,000 hours and logged a dispatch reliability of more than 99.8%. And as the fleet has grown, so too have the speed records for the Mach 0.925, four-zone model.

The Canadian manufacturer noted that the aircraft has accrued some 75 such city-pair records, and more are coming, according to David Strassburg, Bombardier demonstration pilot and safety manager for demo flight operations. “We’re actually at more than that. So we’re really doing quite well.”

These include an 8,225-nm flight in October 2019 from Sydney, Australia, to Detroit, Michigan, the longest flight ever recorded in business aviation, the company maintained. Some of the newer missions included Miami to São Paulo, Tokyo to Los Angeles, Jeddah to London, and Los Angeles to Auckland.

Many of them were done on demo flights from one city to another, providing the ability to demonstrate speed and the quality of the flight in the aircraft to potential buyers.

“That’s been really satisfying to do that,” he said. “We were showing them that we can demonstrate world-class record-setting performance in the end-case scenario that you want to use this aircraft.” Courtesy of AIN.