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Bombardier's first production CRJ1000 NextGen aircraft has completed a
successful first flight, ATI and Flight Global can exclusively reveal.
Aircraft 19001 "had a very good first flight", says Bombardier new commercial
aircraft programme director Ben Boehm.
Under visual flight rules (VFR) conditions, the aircraft "actually started doing
some GPS approaches already and had a good set of circuits in the Montreal
area".
The CRJ1000, which is painted in NextGen colours, is "heading down to Wichita
soon", he adds. There it will join Bombardier's CRJ1000 prototype to prepare for
review by the flight operations evaluation board.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...1000-successfully-completes-first-flight.html