{"id":342574,"date":"2025-12-13T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342574\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:49:15","slug":"bombardier-wins-753m-federal-contract-to-replace-rcafs-challenger-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342574\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombardier wins $753M federal contract to replace RCAF\u2019s Challenger fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Kyle Duggan<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted December 12, 2025 6:17 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The federal government says it will purchase six <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bombardier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bombardier<\/a> Global 6500 jets to replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/royal-canadian-air-force\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Canadian Air Force\u2019s<\/a> remaining <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/challenger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Challenger<\/a> aircraft, which are used to shuttle around VIPs like the prime minister and Governor General.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765485674_689_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The contract is expected to run $753 million and also covers pilot training and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765393751_868_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa says the first of the new executive-style aircraft is expected to be delivered by summer 2027 and to be in the air by the end of that year.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the new jets, which replace the last four Challenger aircraft, will be used for various operations, including medical evacuations and disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11573407\/trade-war-canada-exports-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765630155_438_ad091c0d2142033eea170c3d12953cf19c9b694ce33e2cedd4904ee8f8e34688.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFor 1st time since trade war, Canada exported more than it imported\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11573855\/environment-canada-winter-outlook\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765630155_859_Canada-winter-forecast-2025-26.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEnvironment Canada releases winter outlook. Time to get the snow pants out?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CC-144 Challenger series was introduced into government service in the 1980s and use of the business jets has long been politically charged, with opposition parties frequently describing their use by government members as wasteful.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The airlift capability procurement is among the first files to be managed by the government\u2019s new Defence Investment Agency, which handles large military purchases.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kyle Duggan The Canadian Press Posted December 12, 2025 6:17 pm 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[149684,45,49,48,66387,84827],"class_list":["post-342574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bombardier","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-challenger","tag-royal-canadian-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}