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Bombardier Speeds To 200 Global 7500 Deliveries
By: Kerry Lynch
Caption: Milestone 200th delivery reached in just six years
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Bombardier’s 7,700-nm Global 7500 has reached a new plateau: the 200th delivery to a customer. The airframer announced the milestone last month, a marker reached just six years after the jet entered service in 2018.
Since its entry into service, 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.
However, most of these records were established in roughly the past 18 months, once Bombardier had fully ramped up production on the model, according to Strassburg.
“There was an early phase where there were a couple of records that were set, and then a lot of the focus was really on producing the aircraft, trying to support them, and making sure that we got them out there to customers,” he noted.
While the aircraft was flying at record performance, “there was a rather large gap of several years where we really weren't taking the time to document that and show that we had the performance for the aircraft,” he said. Now, “we got the paperwork dialed in and understand what’s involved.”
In fact, all but three of the records have occurred in the past year and a half. Strassburg stressed that these records were obtained during the aircraft’s normal course of business. “These are not experimental aircraft that are just available to fly around. We have customers that want to see them, we have salesmen that want to see them. So, the records are dictated by the needs of the aircraft,” he said. 
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. This is the reason they’re buying aircraft is because they want to go places,” 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.”
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