Challenger 300

Challenger 300
Role	Business jet
Manufacturer	Bombardier Aerospace (Learjet in Wichita, KS)
First flight	14 August 2001
Status	Active, In production
Produced	2001-present
Number built	500 (as of May 2015)
Unit cost	US$26.67 million (2015)

The Bombardier BD-100 Challenger 300 is a super-mid-sized jet capable of traversing transcontinental distances. It is not developmentally related to the similarly named Challenger 600 series, or the 600-derived Challenger 800 series.

The project was launched at the Paris Air Show on July 13, 1999, at which time it was called the Bombardier Continental. It was a "clean sheet" design, assembled in Bombardier's Learjet plant at Wichita Mid-Continent airport, Kansas. The jet was renamed in September 2002 after much debate about which category (Learjet, Challenger, or Global) the new aircraft fit into. It entered commercial service in January 2004.

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