<p>Here is a private Bombardier Challenger, co-owned by Bombardier and a foreign entity, on a run to Las Vegas McCarran.
</p><p>The Challenger is Bombardier's business jet range, and enlarged versions of it form the Canadair Regional Jet line of regional airliners.
</p><p>Visiting San Francisco on a Pride weekend that is also seeing the restoration of marriage rights for California's same-sex couples, I included some planespotting while at it. After all, San Francisco International Airport is the Pacific gateway for staunchly LGBT-friendly United Airlines, not to mention the home hub for just-as-staunchly-LGBT-friendly Virgin America.
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N542FX, Bombardier Challenger 300
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