The C Series family is now certified. The aircraft manufacturer Bombardier announced on July 11 that the CS300 has received its type certificate from the Ministry of Transport of Canada. This certificate was expected about six months after the issuance of the certificate of CS100 in December 2015.

The first aircraft must be delivered in the fourth quarter as planned. Before that, however, must be issued also a type certificate from EASA, since the start client is the Latvian company airBaltic. The first serial aircraft is currently in various stages of production.

Rob Dewar, Vice President & General Manager CSeries at Bombardier Aerospace explained that “the CS300 aircraft certification process was very straightforward because of the over 99% commonality with the CS100 model.” He added that in the test program the CSeries family covered over 5000 hours and most of the data in tests are quite similar for both models. “We are delighted that operators will be getting C Series aircraft that have exceeded expectations, in particular on airfield performance. We can now confirm a range improvement in excess of 20% out of hot-and-high airports such as Denver, Mexico City or Lhasa.”

The first CS100 has already been delivered to the Swiss airline Swiss and should begin to operate at the end of the week. The first regular flight will carry on the route Zurich – Paris on 15th July.