Bombardier's 70-seat stretched derivative of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ), the CRJ-700, made a 2h test flight before its formal roll-out ceremony at Canadair's Montreal plant on 28 May. The prototype is undergoing around 25h of local flight testing before being ferried to Bombardier's flight-test centre at Wichita, Kansas. Five test aircraft will take part in the 15-month flight test and certification programme, with the other aircraft joining the programme between July and November. Certification is expected by October next year.
Source: Flight International
