Aviation View - March 2024

OPENING L INES BOMBARDIER COMPLETES PORTFOLIO WITH CHALLENGER 650 ENVIRONMENTAL DECLARATION Source- www.ainonline.com, Kerry Lynch,News Editor, First Published 03rd April, 2024 Bombardier has published an environmental product declaration (EPD) for its Challenger 650 aircraft and now has one in place for its full suite of in-production aircraft. The publication of the EPD, which provides an analysis of the environmental impact of a product throughout the life cycle, comes almost a year ahead of the Canadian manufacturer’s goal to have them in place for its entire in-production aircraft portfolio by 2025. Bombardier paved newground in the business jet sector with the initial EPD it secured for the Global 7500 in 2020.The EPD was developed through the International EPD System, which has a library of declarations for products from more than 30 countries in an attempt to foster transparency about environmental life cycles. Third-party verified to international ISO standards, the EPD discloses detailed information about a product from rawmaterial to end-of-life, including details such as CO2 emissions, noise, water consumption, and other key environmental impact indicators. Since 2020, Bombardier has been adding EPDs for each 11 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 04, ISSUE 01