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PRE-OWNED MARKET SPOTLIGHT<br />

CORPORATE AIRLINERS<br />

PAST, PRES<strong>EN</strong>T AND FUTURE<br />

Appealing to VVIP buyers looking for more space and a customized interior,<br />

Corporate Airliners created a market for manufacturers by transforming popular<br />

commercial airliners into corporate jets. In 1996, Boeing Commercial Airplanes<br />

partnered with GE Aviation to bring one of the very first Corporate Airliners to the<br />

market: the Boeing Business Jet based of the then 737 NG Series of commercial<br />

airliners. French manufacturer Airbus followed with its Airbus Corporate Jet<br />

series and since then other manufacturers have attempted the same with varying<br />

degrees of success — Bombardier with its Challenger 850 from the CRJ, Embraer<br />

with the Lineage 1000 from the E190, and the Russian manufacturer Sukhoi with<br />

the SBJ<br />

28 | ASIAN SKY QUARTERLY — THIRD QUARTER 2018

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