Bombardier Aerospace is pressing ahead with development work to improve the environmental performance of its Learjet 85 aircraft. The Canadian company has been working on composite wings that make a ...

Bombardier board chair Pierre Beaudoin was in the witness box at Quebec Superior Court Tuesday to defend the company’s decision to drop the luxury jet with a retail price of $17 million each.

In 1963, the first Learjet 23 rolled out of the company’s manufacturing plant in Wichita, and on March 28, the last, a Learjet 75, emerged from that same facility in Kansas. On Wednesday, Learjet’s ...

The future of Bombardier’s small-cabin Learjet division is a bit of a question mark, with its last all-new Learjet 85 development project being cancelled and the remaining tired product line ...

No Plans To Revive Learjet 85, Bombardier Says. Share. December 18, 2018. Although its heavy investment in new aircraft programs is now past and the Global 7500 is sold out through 2021 ...

Both planes entered service in late 2013, and its only other aircraft in development, the Learjet 85, was scrubbed by Bombardier last year. “My first point is if you’re going to kill the Lear ...

October 2007 — Bombardier officially announced the Learjet 85. Expand to read more Paul Bowen Now-canceled jet was once a source of local growth. Bombardier Inc. on Thursday put an end to its ...

Bombardier's decision, announced October 29, to cancel the Learjet 85 comes a year-and-a-half after the all-composite midsize business jet made its first flight in April 2014.

Bombardier also has “paused” development of its Learjet 85, resulting in a $1.4 billion write-off and the layoff of 620 employees in Wichita and about 380 at its plant in Mexico.

Learjet 85 workers in Mexico had helped develop the out-of-autoclave processes used to fabricate the plane's fuselage. Bombardier (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), disappointingly but not surprisingly, ...