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- OBJECT TYPE
- civil/business jet prototype
- DATE
- 1979
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2006.0001.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadair Ltd.
- MODEL
- Canadair CL-600-2B12/601/604 Challenger
- LOCATION
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 1003/3991
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- predom. aluminum, steel, plexiglass & rubber
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 20.88 m
- Width
- 18.85 m
- Height
- 6.22 m
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Aircraft
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Canadair
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Québec
- City
- Montréal
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- first flown July 14, 1979 as CL-600; converted to CL-601 & test flown April 10, 1982; converted to CL-604 & test flown June 8, 1994; retired 2005
- Canada
-
designed & built in Canada/ helped make Canada, Canadair & Bombardier (purchased Canadair 1986) major players in global aerospace industry/ led to development of Regional Jet airliner 1991 - Function
-
3rd CL-600 prototype produced/ used as prototype to test CL-600, CL-601 & CL-604 Challengers models - Technical
-
in use 27 years/ 1,346 flights/ 2,402 flight hours/ at time of donation oldest airworthy Challenger in existence & only example of modern jet-powered business aircraft in CAvM collection - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Significant lettering on both sides of airplane: on nose section "ACTIVE/ CONTROL/ TECHNOLOGY/ FLY COLLINS"; on fuselage "A C T"; on tail section "C-GCGT"; on tail fin "BOMBARDIER" [inside logo]/ "BOMBARDIER/AEROSPACE"; on port side only near cabin "Queen of the Fleet/ EXPERIMENTAL"; signed on exterior nose section port side near cabin by crew members as follows: Pilot Charles Ellis (Senior Experimental Test Pilot, Bombardier), Co-pilot Jacques Thibaudeau (Production Test Pilot, Bombardier), Flight Test Engineer Jim Brown (Supervisor of Flight Test Operations, Bombardier) & David Gird (Aircraft Maintenance Engineer who worked on the airplane after it landed at CAvM)
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- predom. painted white; lettering predom. dark blue ("ACT" in red); dark blue & red graphic design on tail section; gray landing gear with black tires; clear windows
- Decoration
- circular Bombardier logo on tail fin
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Canadair Ltd., Airplane, 1979, Artifact no. 2006.0001, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2006.0001.001/
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