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The prototype Canadair Regional Jet, C-FCRJ, took off from Montreal International Airport on 10 May 1991 for a 1 hour 25 minute flight; the CRJ200 is its re-engined successor.

The stretched 70 to 78-seat Dash 8 Q400 flew for the first time on 31 January 1998, three years after the programme launch, with 5,071 shp PW150A engines and a 360-knot maximum cruise.

The prototype Bombardier CRJ700, C-FRJX, made its maiden flight on 27 May 1999; the 70-seat stretch of the CRJ200 had 96 firm orders and 140 options at the time.

SAS put the first of its new Dash 8 Q400 turboprops into service between Copenhagen and Aarhus in early February 2000, the first airline in the world to fly the type commercially.

Bombardier flew the first CRJ900 prototype, a modified CRJ700, from Mirabel on 21 February 2001, five months ahead of schedule and less than seven months after launching the 86-seat regional jet.

On 14 December 2010 Bombardier showcased and began delivering the first two CRJ1000 NextGen jets, the 100-seat largest CRJ, to launch customers Air Nostrum of Spain and Brit Air of France at its Mirabel plant.

The first Bombardier CS100, flight test vehicle FTV1, flew for about two and a half hours from Montreal-Mirabel on 16 September 2013, the first flight of the jet that became the Airbus A220.

Bombardier's first CS300, C-FFDK, flew almost five hours from Montreal-Mirabel on 27 February 2015, reaching 41,000 ft; the type later became the Airbus A220-300.

SWISS began the first commercial CSeries service on 15 July 2016, flight LX638 from Zurich to Paris Charles de Gaulle with a CS100.

The Airbus-Bombardier C Series deal closed on 1 July 2018, giving Airbus 50.01 percent of the partnership; the jets were renamed the A220-100 and A220-300 on 10 July.