The best-selling super-mid of its era and the standard the class measures against: flat floor, wide seats, coast-to-coast legs, and ride quality that flatters rough air.
The Numbers That Matter
| Spec | Approximate Figure |
|---|---|
| Class | Super-midsize |
| Typical charter seating | 9 to 10 passengers |
| Range | about 3,200 nm |
| Cruise speed | about 470 knots |
| Cabin (length by width by height) | about 25.2 by 7.2 by 6.1 ft |
| Baggage | about 106 cu ft |
| Lavatory | Enclosed aft lavatory |
Figures are approximate manufacturer-class numbers for planning; individual aircraft vary by configuration, and your quote reflects the actual tail assigned.
Cabin, Seating, and the Bathroom Question
Bombardier tuned this cabin for the way groups actually fly: seats convert to berths, tables seat four for working sessions, and the ride through chop is famously settled.
- Double club for eight in wide, flat-folding seats
- A divan option takes some tails to nine or ten
- The flat floor and 7.2-foot width make it the walk-around cabin of the class
Yes, an enclosed aft lavatory with vanity, and the baggage hold stays accessible in flight through it, which long-trip travelers quietly love.
Super-midsize cabins run flat floors, wide seats, and stand-up height end to end, with galleys that plate warm meals and connectivity that keeps a working flight working. The class was built for transcontinental legs and it shows: berthing seats, quiet interiors, holds that take a group's luggage without triage. For most missions under five hours it is functionally indistinguishable from heavy iron at a friendlier rate.
Baggage and What Fits
About 106 cubic feet, reachable in flight: ski trips for eight with boot bags, or a full team road-case load. The access matters more than the number on multi-leg days.
Models and Variants
Charter listings rarely say which generation you are getting unless you ask. The family tree, so the name on your quote means something:
| Variant | What changed |
|---|---|
| Challenger 300 | the 2004 original that built the segment |
| Challenger 350 | 2014: new winglets, engines, and cabin |
| Challenger 3500 | 2022 onward: auto-throttle, lower cabin altitude, and the Nuage seat |
The Trips It Was Built For
Match the airframe to the mission and the quote gets better. This one earns its keep on: Business & Executive Sports Teams Groups & Events Ski & Mountain Trips
Flying It Out of Denver
The 350 is what "send the good airplane" means on many Front Range charter desks: eight colleagues to New York nonstop, working at a real table, landing fresh.
From Centennial, published range comfortably covers Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami.
The super-mid mission set from Centennial reads like a corporate travel calendar: New York nonstop with the whole deal team, Seattle and home the same day, Cabo with the family and the toys. This is also the class that makes Hawaii-adjacent and deep-Mexico legs practical without stepping to heavy-jet rates, which is why Front Range operators keep adding them.
How Chartering One Works
Chartering this type through FlyCentennial works the same as every aircraft on the site: you send the trip through the Get Best Rate form below, we shop it quietly to operators flying this class out of the Front Range, empty legs get checked first, and one itemized number comes back with the tail, the year, and the interior spelled out. No membership, no deposit program, no phone tag with five sales desks. You compare, you ask questions, you book or you walk, and the quote costs nothing either way.
The Operator Behind the Tail
Every aircraft quoted here flies on a Part 135 air carrier certificate, which is the regulatory difference between commercial charter and a friend with an airplane: recurrent crew training, drug and alcohol programs, maintenance tracking, and FAA oversight on all of it. We match the trip to operators whose certificate, crews, and insurance fit the mission, and we will tell you plainly why a given tail earned the quote.
When to Book
On timing: a week ahead is comfortable for this class on domestic lanes, and two or three days is usually workable outside holiday crushes. The calendar spikes that actually bite are ski-season Fridays, major game weekends, and the days around Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the whole fleet is spoken for by noon. Book those the moment dates firm; everything else can breathe. Empty-leg matches, by nature, reward the flexible over the early.
What It Costs to Charter
Super-mids price between midsize and heavy iron, and on long legs the speed and range often make them cheaper per mile than the class below. Rates move with dates, positioning, and the specific aircraft, which is why we quote trips rather than publish a rate card that would be wrong by Friday. The form below returns a real number, free.