Bombardier announced that Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) awarded its CS100 its steep approach certifications. The CS100 aircraft’s capability to operate at challenging airports such as London City (LCY) Airport was validated by a comprehensive flight…
P&W provided us with this release on their GTF engine: “Pratt & Whitney’s carbon seal improvement package received certification April 12 and is being deployed to our customers. These changes are designed to improve the carbon seal’s durability for PW1100G-JM…
Reviewing flight operations, using data from Flightradar24, we discovered that both aircraft are doing very well. The flights tracked were through March 30. Since we know our readers like CSeries related information, here you are. The bottom line is that…
This week Bombardier sent their CS100 to London City Airport for certification testing. This airport has unique requirements because of a steep glideslope going into the airport. Based out of Stansted for tests, Bombardier took their aircraft in and out…
December has been a truly eventful month for both Bombardier’s CSeries program and airBaltic, the CS300 launch operator. Earlier this week, the CS300 has received its type validation by the FAA (adding to the ones that it already had from Transport Canada and…
Bombardier’s CS300, the larger of the two CSeries variants, successfully entered revenue service with airBaltic earlier today. The first flight was from Riga to Amsterdam, and carried 120 passengers. AirBaltic has configured its aircraft in a 145 seat two-class configuration.…