Aircraft Overview: Global 7500
Bombardier Global 7500
Bombardier’s Global 7500 and Global 8000 are twin-engine business jets produced by the Canadian manufacturer, which are marketing designations of the company’s BD-700-2A12 type.
Part of the company’s Global line of business jets, the Global 7500—which was previously marketed as the Global 7000—was announced in October 2010.
Subsequently, the then-Global 7000 made its first flight on Nov. 4, 2016—a flight which was performed by an airframe registered as C-GLBO—and was certified by Transport Canada on Sept. 27, 2018.
Prior to certification, the change in marketing designation from Global 7000 to Global 7500 was revealed on May 28, 2018.
Following the certification of the Global 7500, Bombardier announced an upgraded version of that airframe on May 23, 2022, that will use the Global 8000 designation.
That marketing designation of the BD-700-2A12 was certified by Transport Canada on Nov. 5, 2025, with the airframe manufacturer stating at that time that they expected the Global 8000’s entry into service to also occur in 2025.
Cabin
According to the Transport Canada type certificate data sheet (TCDS), the BD-700-2A12 can accommodate a maximum of 19 passengers in addition to the two required crew, which is the same capacity as the two other BD-700 variants that are part of Bombardier’s Global series, the BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11.
Global 7500 and Global 8000 passengers are accommodated in a cabin that has a length of 54 ft. 5 in.—measured “from the cockpit divider to [the] aft-most cabin,” excluding the baggage compartment—width of 8 ft. and height of 6 ft. 2 in.
The cabins of both airframes can be divided into four different living spaces, with the Global 7500 also promoted as having a 195-ft.3 baggage compartment.
Avionics
Pilots operate both the Global 7500 and Global 8000 using Bombardier’s Vision flight deck, which features four displays and side-stick controllers.
Additional avionics technologies include enhanced and synthetic vision systems (EVS/SVS), graphical flight planning, a head-up display (HUD), MultiScan weather radar, performance-based navigation (PBN) and controller-pilot data link communication (CPDLC).
The Global 7500 and Global 8000 can also utilize satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) such as the wide area augmentation system (WAAS) to conduct localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approaches, in addition to having the ability to perform required navigation performance authorization required (RNP AR) approaches.
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Variants
In contrast to the Rolls-Royce engines that power Global airframes based on the BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11, the Global 7500 and Global 8000 are equipped with GE Aerospace’s Passport engines.
Bombardier states that the Passport engines which power those Global airframes, can produce 18,920 lbf. of thrust, with the Global 7500’s certified engine being the Passport 20-19BB1A and the Global 8000 equipped with the Passport 20-19BB1B.
Beyond the Global 7500’s 114,850-lb. MTOW and 87,600-lb. maximum landing weight, that BD-700-2A12 marketing designation also has a usable fuel capacity—carried in two main tanks, a center tank and an aft tank—of 7,687 gal. (51,850 lb.).
Mission and Performance
The operating limitations of the Global 7500 and Global 8000 include a 51,000-ft. maximum operating altitude.
However, assuming those airframes’ maximum takeoff weight (MTOW), they are limited to an initial cruise altitude of 43,000 ft.
Although both the Global 7500 and Global 8000 have a common maximum operating altitude, the maximum operating limit Mach (MMO) differs, with the Global 7500 limited to an MMO of 0.925 Mach and the Global 8000 increasing that limit to 0.95 Mach.
In addition to those certified MMO, the high-speed and typical cruise speeds are 0.90 Mach and 0.85 Mach, respectively, and the Global 8000 is also capable of an ultra-high-speed cruise speed of 0.92 Mach.
Assuming National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) instrument flight rules (IFR) reserves, International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) conditions, operating at the typical cruise speed of 0.85 Mach and while carrying eight passengers and four crew, the respective theoretical maximum ranges of the Global 7500 and Global 8000 are 7,700 nm and 8,000 nm.
The airfield performance of the former Global airframe includes a takeoff distance—based on the airplane’s MTOW, sea-level altitude and ISA conditions—of 5,760 ft., as well as a 2,237-ft. landing distance that assumes ISA conditions and sea-level altitude.
Under identical conditions, the Global 8000 is capable of the same takeoff distance, while that airpane’s landing distance is slightly reduced to 2,220 ft.
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