A Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet approaches the airfield at Inverness Dalcross Airport in Highland Region Scotland.
The Bombardier Challenger 600 series is a family of business jets. It was first produced by Canadair as an independent company and then produced from 1986 by Canadair as a division of Bombardier Aerospace. Including the Challenger 300 and Challenger 850, 1,600 Bombardier Challengers are in-service, the fleet has logged million hours over million flights. The origin of the Challenger 600 lies in Canadair’s purchase of a concept for a business jet aircraft, the LearStar 600 from the American inventor and aircraft developer Bill Lear. However, Lear had practically no influence on the ensuing development and design of the aircraft. Even the name LearStar was not new to this concept, since Lear had long before used the name for his conversion of Lockheed Lodestars into business transports. Thus, Canadair quickly abandoned the name LearStar and adopted the name Challenger
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Location: A96, Inverness Dalcross Airport Scotland IV2, UK
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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