Overview
- FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said he expects Transport Canada to announce long‑delayed Gulfstream certifications as early as this week.
- Transport Canada said it is working with Gulfstream and the FAA on the reviews and has not specified which models are set to be cleared.
- U.S. and European regulators certified certain Gulfstream models using a time‑limited exemption for further fuel‑system icing tests that Canada had not adopted.
- The FAA documented in 2023 a partial exemption giving the G700 and G800 three years to complete full‑scale fuel‑icing mitigation testing.
- President Donald Trump threatened to decertify Bombardier jets and levy a 50% tariff on Canadian aircraft, a step airline officials warned could disrupt U.S. carriers, with Bombardier especially exposed given roughly US$5 billion of its 2023 revenue came from U.S. customers.