Bombardier Challenger 850
The Challenger 850 is the business version of the 50-seat CRJ200 regional airliner, first sold as the Challenger SE from 1996 and renamed Challenger 850 in 2006. Its 48 ft cabin typically seats 14, and range with eight passengers is about 2,800 nm. Seventy-one were delivered before production ended in 2012, many of them to charter and corporate shuttle operators.
In short: The Bombardier Challenger 850 is a Large Jet with a range of 2,811 nm, a cruise speed of 459 knots and room for 14 passengers. Pre-owned examples trade around $5.5M–$8M and costs roughly $3,600 an hour to operate (estimate).
2,811 nm
Range
459 kts
Max cruise
14–16
Passengers
—
New price
Highlights
- Derived from the CRJ200 regional jet
- 48 ft cabin, typically 14 seats
- 71 delivered between 1996 and 2012
Performance
- Range
- 2,811 nm
- Max cruise
- 459 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.85
- Max altitude
- 41,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 6,305 ft
- Landing distance
- 2,910 ft
- MTOW
- 53,000 lb
- Engines
- 2 × GE CF34-3B1
- Thrust per engine
- 8,729 lbf
- Fuel burn
- 311 gal/hr
- Avionics
- Collins Pro Line 4
Cabin
- Passengers
- 14 / 16
- Cabin length
- 48.4 ft
- Cabin width
- 8.2 ft
- Cabin height
- 6.1 ft
- Cabin volume
- 1,990 cu ft
- Baggage
- Not published
- Min. crew
- 2
Economics
- New price
- —
- Variable cost / hr
- $3,600
- Fixed cost / yr
- $950,000
- First delivery
- 1996
- Out of production
- 2012
- Units built
- 71
- Pre-owned range
- $5.5M – $8M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly. Data reviewed 2026-09-13. Sources & methodology.
Dimensions & weights
- Length
- 87.8 ft
- Wingspan
- 69.6 ft
- Height
- 20.4 ft
- Max payload
- 9,382 lb
- Max fuel
- 18,274 lb
Programme milestones
- 1996First delivery · Introduced as Challenger SE en.wikipedia.org
- 2006Milestone · Rebranded Challenger 850 en.wikipedia.org
- 2012Production ended · Production ends after 71 deliveries en.wikipedia.org
Sources (5)
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
$5.5M – $8M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly.
Residual value curve
Estimated value retention over 10 years from new, by category depreciation model.
Year 10: 50% ≈ $4M
Compare with similar private jets
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Sources and credits
- Bombardier Challenger 850 · JetRequest.com · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons