DUBAI — Bombardier appears to be closing in on a new ultra long-range business jet to rival Gulfstream’s G650 and replace the company’s Global Express XRS.
The new clean-sheet project, says one source familiar with the program, is code named the M170.
Bombardier declined to comment if the M170 was, in fact, the company’s new ultra long-range business jet, however the a recent increase in listings in support of a non-descriptive “M170 program” have begun appearing on Canadian job websites.
In response to an inquiry about the M170 designation, the company chose only to say, “We are involved in a number of R&D projects.”
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