Bombardier CRJ
regional jet airliner family
The Bombardier CRJ/Mitsubishi CRJ or CRJ Series (for Canadair Regional Jet) is a family of regional jets introduced in 1991 by Bombardier Aerospace. The CRJ was manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace with the manufacturing of the first CRJ generation, the CRJ100/200 starting in 1991 and the second CRJ generation, the CRJ700 series starting in 1999.
The CRJ programme was acquired by Japanese corporation Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI RJ Aviation Group) in a deal that closed 1 June 2020. Bombardier subsequently completed the assembly of the order backlog on behalf of Mitsubishi.
Bombardier claims it is the most successful family of regional jets in the world. Production ended in December 2020 after 1,945 were built.
In April 2026, Aviation Week Fleet Discovery lists about 1,300 CRJs in the global fleet, with about a third of them are built as CRJ-200s.
With the exception of life-extension maintenance programmes, CRJ200s and CRJ700s can operate for 80,000 cycles, while CRJ900s and CRJ1000s have 60,000-cycle limits.
Background
The family consists of the following aircraft generations and models/derivatives:
CRJ100/200
CRJ100 – maximum of 50 passenger seats
CRJ200 – maximum of 50 passenger seats, improved CF34-3B1 engine
CRJ440 – CRJ200 limited to 44 passenger seats
CRJ450 - CRJ200 limited to 41 passenger seats
CRJ700 series
CRJ700 – maximum of 78 passenger seats
CRJ550 – CRJ700 limited to 50 passenger seats
CRJ900 – maximum of 90 passenger seats
CRJ705 – CRJ900 limited to 75 passenger seats
CRJ1000 – maximum of 104 passenger seats
Divestment
As of November 2018, following Bombardier's decisions to sell the CSeries to Airbus and the Q Series to De Havilland Canada, the company was looking at "strategic options" to return the CRJ to profitability. Analysts suspected that it might decide to exit the commercial aircraft market altogether and refocus on business aircraft.
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