Challenger 350 N623N, a 2019 aircraft, at Scottsdale, Arizona, December 2025. · Photo: Duncan Kirk, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bombardier · Super-Midsize Jet
Challenger 350
The second of three versions of Bombardier's super-midsize jet, between the Challenger 300 and the Challenger 3500.
The safest bet in the super-midsize class. It flies 3,200 nm with eight passengers, has the widest flat-floor cabin in its group, and sells quickly. Rivals fly farther or faster, but few match its support and resale.
Buy it if
You fly four to eight people up to about 3,000 nm, want a stand-up, flat-floor cabin, and value a huge support network and a fast, predictable resale.
Skip it if
You regularly fly beyond 3,200 nm, want autothrottles or a lower cabin altitude, or need an external baggage door for skis and golf bags.
Biggest compromise
Range. With eight seats filled it flies about 3,200 nm, enough for coast-to-coast trips and California to Hawaii.
The numbers that matter
Purchase price
$12.9M–$25.9M
guide value (flyCRAFT value model (October 2026, by build year))
What it costs per year
$2.36M
at 300 hrs · two professional pilots
How far it flies
3,200 nm
3,200–3,250 nm with passengers
How fast
470 kt
high-speed cruise
Seats
9
8 to 10 by interior
Pilots needed
2
Always flown by two pilots; there is no single-pilot option.
Price
What one costs to buy
Guide value
$12.9M–$25.9M
Other sites
1.4% of the fleet
6-month move
Priced vs call
with a price / call for price
Only one of 14 listed aircraft shows a price: $15.95M for a 2015. Published guide values run about $12.9M for early aircraft to $25.9M for 2022.
Price vs its family and alternatives
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Challenger 350 · This aircraft
$12.9M–$25.9M guide
Guide value, not a listed asking price.
Sits between the Challenger 300 and the Gulfstream G280.
For sale now
None listed right now
Cost to own
What it costs per year to run
300hours / year
Per year
Per flight hour
Estimate — your operator will quote actual numbers.
Fuel, airframe maintenance, engine program, both engines and trip expenses rise as you fly more. Two pilots, recurrent simulator training, hangar, insurance, management and databases, wi-fi and other fixed stay the same however much you fly.
Where the money goes
- Two pilots$462,41020%
- Recurrent simulator training$45,0002%
- Hangar$66,4503%
- Insurance$51,8002%
- Management$81,0003%
- Databases, Wi-Fi and other fixed$62,5003%
- Fuel$697,65330%
- Airframe maintenance$390,00017%
- Engine program, both engines$247,50011%
- Trip expenses$251,40011%
Fuel is the biggest single cost at 30% of the total.
The JetGrade
75 out of 100 — Clearly above its class
Peer group: Gulfstream G280, Cessna Citation Longitude, Embraer Praetor 600, Embraer Legacy 500, Cessna Citation X+
Seven categories at a glance
- - - 70 = typical— This aircraft
Strongest on reliability & support, weakest on range & payload.
Grades are editorial opinions about the model, not any specific aircraft. Sponsors and affiliates have no input. Reviewed 2026-10-29.
Where it flies
Sample trips and reach
Typical trips on a map
Nonstop
8 of 8 sample trips are comfortable nonstops.
Sample flight times
- 0.9 hr
Carlsbad → Las Vegas
205 nm · Short hop well within range
- 1.7 hr
Carlsbad → Aspen
625 nm · Mountain airport; weather and season matter
- 2.0 hr
Santa Ana → San José del Cabo
765 nm · Easy nonstop with full cabin
- 2.3 hr
Teterboro → West Palm Beach
900 nm · Easy nonstop with full cabin
- 2.9 hr
Dallas → Teterboro
1,190 nm · Easy nonstop with ample reserve
- 3.4 hr
Teterboro → San Juan
1,410 nm · Over-water leg well within range
- 4.9 hr
Carlsbad → Teterboro
2,100 nm · Coast-to-coast nonstop with four passengers
- 5.2 hr
Los Angeles → Honolulu
2,215 nm · Over-water nonstop; plan winds and island reserves
Lineage
What came before and after
2014–2022
Challenger 350
More thrust, canted winglets, higher weights and an updated cockpit.
What changed from the Challenger 300
- Honeywell HTF7350 engines give 7,323 lb thrust each, about 500 lb more than the 300's.
- Canted composite winglets stretch the wingspan to 69 ft, about 5 ft more.
- Maximum takeoff weight rises 1,750 lb to 40,600 lb.
- Range grows from about 3,065 nm to 3,200 nm with eight passengers.
- Collins Pro Line 21 Advanced cockpit with synthetic vision as standard.
- Larger cabin windows and a redesigned interior with a new cabin management system.
Size and cabin
How big it is, inside and out
Outside
Silhouette · scaled to length
Length
Wingspan
Height
Inside the cabin
Cabin length
Width
Height
Compare
How it stacks up
This aircraft
Challenger 350
- JetGrade
- 75
- Price
- $12.9M–$25.9M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.36M
- Range
- 3,200 nm
- Speed
- 470 kt
- Seats
- 9
- Cabin length
- 25′ 2″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2014–2022
← Before
- JetGrade
- 75
- Price
- $11.87M
- Cost per year
- $2.29M
- Range
- 3,065 nm
- Speed
- 470 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 28′ 7″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2004–2014
After →
- JetGrade
- 72
- Price
- $23.3M–$28M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.11M
- Range
- 3,400 nm
- Speed
- 470 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 25′ 2″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2022–now
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 72
- Price
- $17.75M–$22.5M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.3M
- Range
- 3,600 nm
- Speed
- 482 kt
- Seats
- 9
- Cabin length
- 25′ 10″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2012–now
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 78
- Price
- $20.5M–$23.29M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.37M
- Range
- 4,018 nm
- Speed
- 466 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 27′ 7″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2019–now
- Gulfstream G280 instead: About 400 nm more range and a larger baggage hold, at similar prices; the cabin is slightly narrower.
- Embraer Praetor 600 instead: Flies about 4,000 nm with fly-by-wire controls, but has a smaller fleet and support network.
- Bombardier Challenger 3500 instead: The same airframe with autothrottles, a lower cabin altitude and a new cabin, for several million dollars more.
Gold marks the best figure in each row.
Owning one
What to know before you buy
Engines & inspections
2 × Honeywell HTF7350 (AS907-2-1A) · 7,323 lbf each
Engine hours until overhaul
- Basic inspection · 600 hr
- Engine turbine borescope · 4,800 hr
- Engine compressor borescope · 9,600 hr
- 48-month inspection every 48 months
- 96-month inspection every 96 months
- 192-month inspection every 192 months
Engines have no fixed overhaul time and run on condition; most listed aircraft have engines on an hourly plan, and the few without one deserve a discount.
Known issues
Left DC power center
Contamination can cause erratic electrical indications or power loss; repeated directives, with replacement estimated up to about $36,000.
Pitch trim directives
A series of directives on trim switches, wiring and the trim actuator; mostly checks, worst case about $55,000.
Engine inlet corrosion
Aluminum inlet barrels corrode; a carbon-fiber replacement barrel is an approved permanent fix.
Pre-buy checklist
0 of 10 checked
Bombardier runs its own US service centers in Dallas, Tucson, Hartford, Wichita and Miami, with mobile repair trucks nationwide. More than 1,000 aircraft in the 300/350/3500 family keep parts and mechanics plentiful.
Review
The full review
Strengths
- Widest cabin in the class: 7 ft 2 in wide and 6 ft tall, with a flat floor.
- Flies 3,200 nm with eight passengers, enough for New York to Los Angeles nonstop.
- About 1,800 lb of payload with full fuel, so four passengers and bags never limit range.
Limitations
- Range trails the G280, Longitude and Praetor 600 by 300 to 800 nm.
- No autothrottle; the Challenger 3500 added one in 2022.
- Annual cost runs about $2.4 million at 300 hours with two pilots.
The Challenger 350 is the second version of Bombardier's super-midsize business jet. The Challenger 300 started the line in 2004; the 350 replaced it in 2014, and the Challenger 3500 took over in 2022. Bombardier delivered about 420 of them. That makes it one of the most common business jets of the last decade, flown by NetJets, Flexjet and hundreds of companies and private owners.
Pilot's take
The Challenger 350 is a straightforward airplane to fly. The Pro Line 21 Advanced cockpit will feel familiar to anyone who has flown a Collins-equipped jet, synthetic vision is standard, and a head-up display with enhanced vision became an option in 2018. At maximum weight it climbs directly to 43,000 ft. The main thing pilots miss is an autothrottle, which arrived only on the 3500. Steep-approach approval opens airports like London City. The 4,835 ft takeoff figure and on-condition engines make it an easy jet to dispatch.
Who this is for
Companies and owners flying 200 to 400 hours a year with four to eight passengers, mostly within North America, who want a roomy cabin, two professional pilots, and an aircraft they can sell quickly later.
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