
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.
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.
In September 2016, Bombardier revised its CSeries delivery target for 2016 from 15 to seven due to production delays suffered by Pratt & Whitney, maker of the CSeries' PW1500G geared-turbofans.
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P&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.
The earlier generation P&W engines had hollow-titanium blades. The new P&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.
Bombardier expects to produce 30 to 35 CSeries in 2017 targeting a number between 90 and 120 CSeries by 2020.
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