How much a Bombardier Challenger 350 costs: 2026 prices

For several years running the Challenger 350 was the most delivered aircraft in the super-midsize class. The market for it is dense, the statistics are reliable, and there is one figure that separates this aircraft from its predecessor more sharply than price does.

The price corridor

Full specifications are on the model page.

The key figure in that table is 72 days

The Challenger 300 averages 165 days on market. The 350 averages 72. More than a factor of two.

That means two things. For a buyer: a suitable aircraft leaves the market quickly, there is little time to deliberate and the negotiation is shorter. For a future seller: exiting the asset will take roughly two and a half months against five and a half on the predecessor.

Liquidity is part of the price, simply deferred. The difference in speed of sale justifies part of the gap in value between the 300 and the 350.

A deal on the secondary market takes about two months, and buying a new aircraft around a year and a half. With 72 days on market, the money and the paperwork are worth having ready before the first conversation about price.

What moves the price of an individual aircraft

Year of build. The model was built from 2014 to 2022. The Bluebook valuation for 2018–2022 aircraft starts at $17.5 million — the newer aircraft hold the top of the corridor.

Engine programmes. The Honeywell HTF7350 is a substantial unit, and the next overhaul is capable of consuming the whole of the saving at purchase. An aircraft with active coverage costs more going in and more coming out.

Cabin specification. The options list included stone, marble and wood in the galley and the lavatory, entertainment systems and satellite communications. Two aircraft of the same year differ noticeably in price on the finish alone.

Avionics and communications. Requirements change and retrofits cost money. Establish what is fitted now and what will have to go in over the next two years.

Documentation. Gaps in the logbooks, outstanding service bulletins, components without confirmed provenance. Every item converts into money and comes off the price.

On the cost of upkeep

The figures depend on how much you fly in a year, the region of basing, the maintenance arrangement and the make-up of the crew. A market average gets in the way at this point: decisions get taken on it that later diverge from the facts.

I spent five years in aircraft leasing and seven in business aviation, and business plans and financial models for aviation businesses are still part of my work. To my information, upkeep takes 10–20 per cent of an aircraft's value a year: crew, pilot training, the operator, parking, fuel. I talk clients out of unjustified purchases as a matter of principle.

The structure of the costs:

Fixed costs run regardless of how much you fly. A two-person crew, parking, insurance, calendar maintenance checks, continuing airworthiness management. They are paid even if the aircraft stands in the hangar for the whole quarter.

Variable costs are counted from hours. Fuel, line maintenance, accruals to the reserve for engine and component overhaul.

The hours you fly in a year decide more than anything. At a hundred hours a year the fixed costs land on each hour as a hundredth; at four hundred, as a four-hundredth. One aircraft, and the hourly cost differs by a factor of four.

One point specific to this class: a two-person crew with a cabin 1.85 m high. Aircraft of comparable comfort in the heavy class require three, and that is a fixed line item running the year round.

The order of work

1. Set your budget inside the $16–18.5 million band: the difference is year of build, life remaining and specification.
2. Work out from the documents of past years how many hours you flew in a year.
3. Keep the 72 days in mind: suitable aircraft go quickly, and the decision is taken faster than on other types.
4. Establish the status of the engine programmes on each candidate.
5. Ask for the logbooks before any conversation about price.

The prices are market reference points from the open marketplaces as at August 2026, to my information. The value of a particular aircraft is calculated from its documents, its hours and its specification.

Alexander Filimonov — business aviation: sourcing, acquisition and entry into service of aircraft.