Bombardier delivers seven CSeries aircrafts with titanium-aluminium fan blades in 2016

<p>Bombardier completed its annual target of delivering seven CSeries aircraft in 2016 by supplying two aircrafts in the last two days of the year, the company confirms.<br /><br />Bombardier delivered a CS100 to Swiss International Airlines on December 30 and a CS300 to Air Baltic departed Montreal on 31 December. The total seven aircrafts include five CS100s to Swiss and two CS300s to Air Baltic.<br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/bombardier.jpg" alt="News" width="517" height="226" /><br />In September 2016, Bombardier revised its CSeries delivery target for 2016 from 15 to seven due to production delays suffered by Pratt &amp; Whitney, maker of the CSeries' PW1500G geared-turbofans.<br /><br />{googleAdsense}<br /><br />P&amp;W was responsible for producing turbofans' titanium-aluminium fan blades, which have an aluminium body bonded to a titanium leading edge, a very significant part of the CSeries aircrafts. The company cited the delay in production of these parts as the reason for delivery default. &nbsp;<br /><br />The earlier generation P&amp;W engines had hollow-titanium blades. The new P&amp;W fan blades switched to the lighter titanium-aluminium design for improved speed. The geared-turbofan's blades spin at one third the speed of blades on earlier engines.<br /><br />Bombardier expects to produce 30 to 35 CSeries in 2017 targeting a number between 90 and 120 CSeries by 2020.</p>