Overall, Bombardier and Learjet coordinated the program in the early 2000s. The first prototype aircraft, which was a modified Learjet 45, flew for the first time in August 2002 from the Learjet ...

Bombardier has manufactured a fleet of some 5,000 aircraft globally, bagging many city-to-city speed records, cabin design awards, and racking up an estimated 6,164 patents between 2009 and 2023.