{"id":355,"date":"2012-07-09T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:47:58","slug":"bombardier-q400-stretch-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/bombardier-q400-stretch-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombardier Q400 stretch on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"Bombardier_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bombardier_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Bombardier_logo\" width=\"196\" height=\"109\" \/>Reports indicate that Bombardier is considering a 90-seat version of its Q400 turboprop but will wait for engine advancements before committing to any such new version of the Dash 8 fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Bombardier indicated that a simple stretch of the DHC-8Q-400 could be designed and built quickly, but there would not be a significant performance gain over the 70-seat version of the Dash 8 without a major improvement in the aircraft type&#8217;s engines. There appears to be no technical reason why a 90-seat DHC-8Q-900 could not be built and there is demand from Bombardier&#8217;s customers for such an aircraft. However, with that demand also comes a requirement that the fuel performance of the new aircraft be better than the current DHC-8Q-400.<\/p>\n<p>ATR, the only other competing aircraft manufacturer, is considering a similar stretch, but also has not announced a time frame or other details on their program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports indicate that Bombardier is considering a 90-seat version of its Q400 turboprop but will wait for engine advancements before committing to any such new version of the Dash 8 fleet. Bombardier indicated that a simple stretch of the DHC-8Q-400 could be designed and built quickly, but there would not be a significant performance gain &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/bombardier-q400-stretch-on-hold\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,97,109,237],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bombardier","tag-dhc-8","tag-dhc-8q-400","tag-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}