Chartright Air (HRT, Toronto Pearson) has placed the world's first Global 8000 into service, roughly a month after Bombardier Business Aircraft secured Transport Canada type certification for the model.
General manager Justin King confirmed to ch-aviation that the aircraft will not be available for charter and will be based at Toronto Pearson.
The ultra-long-range jet, C-FPJD (msn 70240), ferried between the manufacturer's Montréal Trudeau production facilities and Toronto Pearson on December 2.
The jet was handed over to the owner on December 8 at Bombardier's assembly centre at Toronto Pearson. Configured for up to 18 passengers, it replaces his previous Global-series aircraft, a Global 7500, which use to carry the same Canadian registration but was reregistered in the United States on November 24 as N988DX (msn 70073). A Global 5000 was also registered in Canada as C-FPJD between 2019 and 2021.
In 2021, Chartright Air became the first in Canada to manage a Global 7500. Currently, its fleet does not include any Global 7500.
However, King added that the company expected to induct a Global 7500 before the end of this year.
Chartright Air's fleet includes three other Global-family aircraft, namely a Global 5000 and two Global 5500s, alongside a Learjet 45XR, eight Challenger 300s, two Challenger 350s, a Challenger 3500 added in late 2024, five Challenger 604s, two Challenger 605s, and a Challenger 650. The company retired a Global 6000 in early 2025 along with a Challenger 601-3A in June.
Additionally, Chartright Air retired a former Toronto Pearson-based, 21-year-old Citation Encore, with manufacturer serial number 560-0676, exported to the United States on December 8. King confirmed the nine-seat aircraft, previously C-FSNC and active until December 1 when it flew between Kitchener and Wichita Eisenhower, was sold for parts.
The company further operates six Citation Ultras, two inducted in March and five as part of Chartright Air's membership programme, two Citation Excels, a Citation XLS, a Citation XLS+, a Citation X, a Falcon 2000EX EASy, a Falcon 2000LXS, three G200s (one parked at Toronto Pearson since August 2024), a G280 added in late 2024, a G450, a Hawker 800XPi, a PC-12, and an Airbus Helicopters H160.
At the 2025 NBAA-BACE, Bombardier announced an order for one Global 8000 from Comlux Aviation (Zurich), followed by another from Japan's Sojitz Corporation, the parent of Phenix Jet (RKS, Teterboro) and Phenix Jet Cayman. The sucessor of the Global 7500 is still awaiting United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification.
