Aircrafts flight tested vs number of deliveries/exportationsAt this point, based on the CCAR exportations list, we still need Bombardier to get 40 aircrafts out of the door to reach the '138 or more' target for the year. This is misleading, because we all know they do not just export aircrafts and military deliveries might not be taken into account in this list. (As far as I know, for the military part)
I've been trying to figure out why there were so many aircrafts tested (not flight tests, but really individual aircrafts tested) and comparatively so quite a few deliveries less. Some other user posted stuff as facts and had me doing some digging.
The result confirmed my previous assumption about the mismatch. Bombardier has delivered at least 7 more aircrafts than the 40 we know of. These deliveries were made in Canada.
If we add the 2 Bombardier Defense deliveries announced by Bombardier, one in October and the other in November, 9 aircrafts would have been delivered and not taken into account in our 'in house deliveries needed' countdown.
Let's be conservative and not add the military, since I'm not sure if these are included in the CCAR list or not, and just add the 7 delivered in Canada. This would make 40 'in house still needed' minus 7 delivered in Canada for a total of a maximum of 33 left to deliver.
Knowing that last year Bombardier delivered 25 aircrafts in December alone makes me think that reaching the 138+, as planned by Eric Martel, is a very easily achievable goal.
GLTAL