The Learjet has been a household name as a private jet for decades. Now it's over, because Bombardier will cease production in the fourth quarter of 2021. The pattern came on the market in 1963 and has been continuously developed. Since then, more than 3.000 units have been delivered.
Bombardier has been on the decline in aerospace for some time. The CSeries were sold to Airbus, the Dash series ended up at Longview and reappeared as DHC, and the CRJs ended up at Mitsubishi. The business jet division has remained so far. With the discontinuation of the Learjet program, which, according to Bombardier, yields too little, this area will also be reduced considerably.
The group's aerospace department doesn't really have a tradition, but arose from a hodgepodge of smaller manufacturers that were taken over. This is exactly what happened at Learjet, because the company was bought out in 1990. The omens for this pattern have been very bad for a few years, because Bombardier took over financially with the CSeries, while the aging models CRJ and Dash-8 developed into slow-moving products.
In 2015 the Learjet 85 was also called off. As a result, around 1.000 employees in the Kansas and Querétaro plants had to be cut. The canceled pattern also cost the company a lot of money. In the future, they want to concentrate on the other business jet models. Bombardier boss Éric Martel on the discontinuation of the Learjet: "In view of the increasingly challenging market development, we made this difficult decision".
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