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Article: Bombardier Launches Extended Service Program for Dash 8-100 Aircraft.
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- Marketwire Canada
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- October 8, 2009
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 8, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has launched its Extended Service Program (ESP) to extend the economic life of the Dash 8-100 turboprop to 120,000 flight cycles from the original 80,000 flight cycles. Launch customer for the Dash 8-100 ESP is Wideroe's Flyveselskap AS of Norway.
The Dash 8-100 aircraft entered service in December 1984, and today - as its 25th anniversary approaches - there are an estimated 240 in service throughout the world. Bombardier estimates the near-term market for the ESP would be the approximately 100 Dash 8-100 aircraft which have flown 50,000 or more cycles.
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