Originally Posted by
hotpancakes
As the title says, I'm interested in knowing what's the fastest-climbing business jet in production today. Any ideas?
Fastest climbing is a little broad.
From sea level initial ROC?
Time to climb to a specified altitude?
At max take off weights or at ‘record’ weights?
At standard weights and temps a C525 will climb straight to its ceiling of FL450 but obviously this won’t equate to a stellar ROC as far as average feet per minute as you’re down to 300’ per minute for the last 2000’ of altitude gain.
737’s are brutal climbers down low so I’ll throw the 737 BBJ in the mix.
At operating weights a lot lighter then a pax laden airline work horse.