Super-Mid Jets
Bombardier Challenger 3500
The stand-up super-mid for transcontinental business travel — the flattest floor and the lowest cabin altitude in the class, at 4,850 ft when cruising at 41,000 ft.
Challenger 3500
Mission profile
The stand-up super-mid for transcontinental business travel — the flattest floor and the lowest cabin altitude in the class, at 4,850 ft when cruising at 41,000 ft.
Typical routes
- New York → San Francisco
- Palm Beach → Los Angeles
- Boca Raton → Seattle
- Miami → Bogotá
Verified specifications
The numbers, with their conditions attached.
A manufacturer's headline range assumes a lightly loaded aircraft at long-range cruise. Publishing that figure beside a seat count is how buyers get misled, so we publish both and plan against the realistic one.
- Typical seats
- 9
- Maximum seats
- 16
- Full-cabin range
- 3,000 nm
- Manufacturer max range
- 3,400 nm
- Max cruise
- 470 kt
- Planning cruise
- 459 kt
- Ceiling
- 45,000 ft
- Cabin length
- 25 ft 2 in
- Cabin height
- 6 ft 0 in
- Cabin width
- 7 ft 2 in
- Baggage
- 106 cu ft
- Crew
- Two pilots
About that range figure
Mach 0.77 with four passengers, two crew and NBAA IFR reserves. With eight passengers, plan around 3,000 nm.
For planning a real trip with the cabin filled, we use 3,000 nm. That is the number the configurator on this site checks against before it recommends this aircraft for your route.
Common questions
How many passengers does the Bombardier Challenger 3500 seat?
9 in a typical charter configuration, with a maximum certified capacity of 16. The typical figure is the comfortable one and is what we quote against.
What is the range of the Bombardier Challenger 3500?
The manufacturer figure is 3,400 nautical miles — Mach 0.77 with four passengers, two crew and NBAA IFR reserves. With eight passengers, plan around 3,000 nm. For planning a trip with a full cabin, use approximately 3,000 nautical miles.
How fast is the Bombardier Challenger 3500?
Maximum cruise is 470 knots true airspeed (Mach 0.83 maximum, Mach 0.80 typical cruise). We plan flight times at 459 knots, which is closer to how the aircraft is actually flown in service.
Can you stand up in the Bombardier Challenger 3500?
Yes — the cabin is 6 ft 0 in high, so most passengers can stand and move about normally.
Super-Mid Jets
Others in this category
Coast to coast, full cabin, no stop.
Cessna Citation Sovereign+
Coast-to-coast with a full cabin out of short or high-elevation runways — a 3,530 ft takeoff roll beats every other super-mid.
- Seats
- 8
- Range
- 2,775 nm
- Cruise
- 460 kt
Cessna Citation X
The speed play. When arriving forty minutes earlier matters more than cabin width, nothing else in charter is quicker.
- Seats
- 8
- Range
- 2,800 nm
- Cruise
- 525 kt
Ask about the Bombardier Challenger 3500
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