Canadair of Cimber Air on final approach to Aberdeen Dyce Airfield Grampian Region North East Scotland
Bombardier Aerospace is a division of the Bombardier group. It is the third largest aircraft company in the world in terms of yearly delivery of commercial airplanes (behind Boeing and Airbus). The aerospace division was launched with the 1986 acquisition of Canadair, at the time owned by the Government of Canada and a company that had recorded the then largest loss in history of any Canadian corporation. Politically, the Federal Government could not allow the Montreal, Quebec based company to close, and any hints that it might do so were met with media stories of the Government's Avro Arrow disaster. After acquiring Canadair and restoring it to profitability, Bombardier acquired in 1989 the near-bankrupt Short Brothers aircraft manufacturing company in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was followed in 1990 by the acquision of the bankrupt Learjet Company of Wichita, Kansas, builder of the world-famous Learjet business aircraft and finally the money-losing Boeing subsidiary de Havilland Aircraft of Canada based in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Bombardier builds business jets, short-range airliners and fire-fighting amphibious aircraft and also provides defence-related services. Their aircraft were originally delivered with the same names as the original companies, but Bombardier has re-branded all of their current offerings under the Bombardier name. The primary product line includes the Learjet, Challenger and Global family of business jets developed from Lear designs, the CRJ series developed from the Challenger, the Q series turboprops developed from the de Havilland Canada Dash 8, and the Bombardier 415 water bomber, developed from the Canadair CL-215.
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Location: Dyce Airfield Aberdeen Grampian Region North East Scotland UK
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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