A heavy jet with a heavy jet's cabin, doing work that looks more like a shuttle: Montreal to Toronto, Toronto to Montreal, and Teterboro out to Bermuda.
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Heavy jets on this board tend to be published with a week or two in hand. The 650 is the exception: its legs typically appear only a few days before departure, and they do not stay long. The Montreal to Toronto and return pairing is the one to watch if you move between the two cities; Teterboro to Bermuda is the other regular, and a rare chance at a transatlantic capable cabin for a ninety minute island hop.
The 650 is the last and most refined of the Challenger 600 line that began in the late 1970s: the widest cabin in its class at nearly eight feet, a full galley, and 4,000 nm of range, which is New York to London with margin. Twelve seats is both the certified figure and what operators list, which is unusual; on most types the two disagree.
Published prices are rare on this aircraft, as on nearly every heavy jet we record. Where a figure does appear the record block above will show it; otherwise the enquiry is how you find out.
Specification: Challenger 650, GlobalAir. In service since 2015. The seat count on any individual flight is the operator's.
The 650, in service since 2015, is the latest and probably last version of the Challenger 600 line that began in 1978: more thrust from the same CF34-3B engines, a Pro Line 21 Advanced cockpit, a further cabin redesign and 4,000 nm of range. It is a mature design flown by operators who value the width of its cabin over the range of newer types, and on this board it does shuttle work a much smaller aircraft could do.
| Manufacturer | Bombardier |
|---|---|
| Engines | 2 × General Electric CF34-3B |
| Passengers | 12 maximum |
| Cabin | 25 ft 7 in long, 7 ft 11 in wide, 6 ft high |
| Baggage | 112 cu ft |
| Range | 4,000 nm maximum, 3,756 nm on the normal profile |
| Maximum cruise | 488 knots |
| Ceiling | 41,000 ft |
| Take-off distance | 5,640 ft |
| Landing distance | 2,402 ft |
| Maximum take-off weight | 48,200 lb |
| History | in service 2015 |
Source: GlobalAir.