Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier builds business jets, short-range airliners and fire-fighting amphibious aircraft and also provides defence-related services. Some of their aircraft designs originated in the design departments of Canadair or de Havilland Aircraft of Canada. The company has been adept at developing quiet turboprop airliners capable of using urban airports with relatively short runways and steep glide slopes. Current production aircraft models include, The Learjet family of aircraft, the Challenger 300, Challenger 605, Global 5000, Global Ex ...

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Bombardier Aerospace, Bombardier Aerospace - Aircraft, Bombardier Aerospace - Business Jets, Bombardier Aerospace - Canadair Regional Jets, Bombardier Aerospace - CSeries, Bombardier Aerospace - Q Series Turboprops

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Bombardier Inc. (IPA /bɔ̃baʁdje/) TSX: BBD.SV.B TSX: BBD.MV.A, a Canadian company, was founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Québec. It is a large manufacturer of regional aircraft, business jets, and railway cars. Its headquarters are in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Corporate Headquarters < ...

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Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a shy, determined mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could 'float on snow'. In 1937, the first snowmobile rolled out of his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec. Over the years, Bombardier continued to perfect his dream and found that winter-bound Canadians were eager to come along for the ride. Bombardier changed the way we travel over snow and he established a Canad ...

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Canadair was created in 1944 by the government of Canada as a manufacturer of PBY Canso flying boats for the RCAF for patrol duty. It was founded as a manufacturing centre for Canadian Vickers in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Laurent, at Cartierville Airport. Canadair Plant One is still there, although the airport no longer exists. In 1946 Canadair was bought by the Electric Boat Company, which itself became part of the growing General Dynamics (GD) empire in 1952. In 1954 GD purchased Convair, and reorganized ...

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Canadair, Canadair - History, Canadair - Aircraft

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Adria Airways is an airline based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the national airline of Slovenia and a regional member of the Star Alliance. As of 2005 it operates scheduled and charter flights to 43 destinations in 23 countries, mostly in Europe. Its main base and hub is Brnik Airport, Ljubljana. Adria Airways - History. The airline was established and started operations in 1961 as a charter company with a Douglas DC-6 under the name of Adria Aviopromet (Adria Airways). Later, extra DC-6s were bough ...

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• Adria Airways - Fleet

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Bombardier has been criticised in Canada and abroad over the subsidies it receives from various levels of government. They have been described as corporate welfare and accused of violating free trade agreements, especially by Brazil. Canada and Bombardier have countered by citing Brazil's direct and indirect subsidies to Embraer, its own major aircraft manufacturer and one of Bombardier's principa ...

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Under the management of Laurent Beaudoin, Bombardier's son-in-law, the company took over the Canadian government-owned Canadair aircraft manufacturing company in Montreal that had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history. Bombardier became a leading manufacturer of business jets, regional aircraft, and trains. Besides the Challenger and Global business jets, in 1990 Bombardier acquired the Learjet Company of Wichita, Kansas, builder of the Learjet business aircraft. The aerospace arm, Bombardier Aerospace, accounts fo ...

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Two pre-owned Q400s, acquired from Scandinavian Airlines System, were modified by Cascade Aerospace of Abbotsford, British Columbia for France's Sécurité Civile to act as fire-fighting water bombers in fire season and as transport aircraft off season. The Q400 Airtanker can drop 10,000 L (22,000 lb) of water in this role compared to Bombardier's CL-415 dedicated water bomber which can drop 6,140 L. The latter, however, is amphibious and requires less infrastructure. Neptune Aviation of Missoula, Montana have acquired a Q300 as a prototype fo ...

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De Havilland Canada Dash 8, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Variants, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Current Operators, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Other Applications, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Related content, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Designation sequence, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Related development, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Similar aircraft, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - Related lists, De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - External links

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Air Canada Jazz was established in 2001 from the consolidation of the Air Canada connector carriers Air BC, Air Nova, Air Ontario and Canadian Regional Airlines shortly after the successful takeover of Canadian Airlines by Air Canada. It employs 5,444 staff (at January 2005). In February 2005, Air Canada announced that it would shift much of its flying from its own mainline and regional jets to Air Canada Jazz's planes in cities across Canada and the United States. The move was controversial, since it essentially shifted high paying A ...

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Air Canada Jazz, Air Canada Jazz - History, Air Canada Jazz - Fleet

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Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Development. During the 1960s, the Canadian government planned new airports near its largest cities, Montréal and Toronto. This was to relieve pressure on Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (then known as Dorval Airport) and Toronto Pearson International Airport (then known as Toronto International), and to ...

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Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - History, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Development, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Later years, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Architecture and layout, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Airline service, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Notes

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The airline was established and started operations in 1961 as a charter company with a Douglas DC-6 under the name of Adria Aviopromet (Adria Airways). Later, extra DC-6s were bought from KLM. In 1968, the company changed its name to Inex-Adria Airways and introduced its first jet type, the Douglas DC-9. Its name was changed after aligning with Belgrade-based trading group Interexport, but reverted to the original title ...

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The airport is owned by the Toronto Port Authority. The operation of the TCCA is subject to a Tripartite Agreement, created in 1983 at the request of the City of Toronto, among the then Toronto Harbour Commissioners (now the Toronto Port Authority), the Government of Canada and the City of Toronto. The 1983 Agreement makes provisions for a restricted list of aircraft allowed to use the airport due to noise levels, prohibitions on jet traffic except for MEDEVAC flights and prohibition against the co ...

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Toronto City Centre Airport, Toronto City Centre Airport - Ownership and Usage, Toronto City Centre Airport - Mainland access, Toronto City Centre Airport - Scheduled Destinations, Toronto City Centre Airport - Public Transportation, Toronto City Centre Airport - Airport Data, Toronto City Centre Airport - Lighting, Toronto City Centre Airport - Communications, Toronto City Centre Airport - Navigation

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List of Canadian companies - A. Abitibi Consolidated (pulp and paper) AGF Management (mutual funds) Agricore United (agricultural commodities, farm supplies, etc.) (formed from merger between United Grain Growers Ltd. and Agricore) AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. (financial services) Air Canada Alcan (aluminum) Alexander Keith's (brewery) Aliant (telecommunications) Alliance Atlantis ATI Technologies (graphics cards) Astral Media Automation Tooling Systems (industrial automation) ...

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Mirabel was designed to be eventually expanded to six runways as well as six terminal buildings. The expansion was supposed to occur in a number of phases and be completed by 2025. However, the airport never got beyond the first phase of construction and by October of 2005 runway 11/29 was closed leaving only runway 06/24 operational. From the furthest reach of the parking lot to the airplane seat, one can walk as little as 200 meters. A train station was also built in the basement for the planned TRRAMM service, righ ...

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Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - History, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Development, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Later years, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Architecture and layout, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Airline service, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport - Notes

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Mirabel initially opened with service from local airlines Air Canada, CP Air and Quebecair, as well as airlines from more than fifteen countries, including Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia, British Airways, CSA, El Al, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Olympic Airways, Sabena, SAS, Swissair and TAP. These airlines had their national country flags posted in front of the terminal on the inauguration of Mirabel. Other airlines to have flown to Mirabel at some point were Aerolineas Argentinas, AeroMexico, Air India, Cubana de Aviación, F ...

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Toronto City Centre Airport - Lighting. Runway 08 - AS(TE HI) P1: Runway Identification Lights, High intensity runway, threshold, & end lights, variable 5 settings, PAPI for aircraft with eye-to-wheel height up to 10 feet. Runway 26 - AS(TE HI) AP Runway 15 - AP Toronto City Centre Airport - Communications. ATIS 133.6, Automatic Terminal Information Service Ground 121.7, 06:45 to 22:45 hrs. local, daily Tower City 118.2, 119.2, 226.5, 06:45 to 22:45 ...

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Toronto City Centre Airport, Toronto City Centre Airport - Ownership and Usage, Toronto City Centre Airport - Mainland access, Toronto City Centre Airport - Scheduled Destinations, Toronto City Centre Airport - Public Transportation, Toronto City Centre Airport - Airport Data, Toronto City Centre Airport - Lighting, Toronto City Centre Airport - Communications, Toronto City Centre Airport - Navigation

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Adria Airways serves the following destinations with scheduled flights from Ljubljana (as of 2005): Amsterdam (AMS), Netherlands Brussels (BRU), Belgium Copenhagen (CPH), Denmark Dublin (DUB), Ireland Frankfurt (FRA), Germany Istanbul (IST), Turkey London (LGW), United Kingdom Manchester (MAN), United Kingdom Moscow (SVO), Russia Munich (MUC), Germany Ohrid (OHD), Republic of Macedonia Paris (CDG), France Podgorica (TGD), ...

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The airport is served by a ferry, the Maple City, from the foot of Bathurst Street (at 121 metres, it is reputedly the world's shortest regularly-scheduled ferry route). Access to the airport from the rest of the Islands is restricted. There was a plan to link the island to the mainland by a new bridge, and in 2002 Toronto City Council, while Mel Lastman was Mayor of Toronto, amended the tripartite agreement to perm ...

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Toronto City Centre Airport, Toronto City Centre Airport - Ownership and Usage, Toronto City Centre Airport - Mainland access, Toronto City Centre Airport - Scheduled Destinations, Toronto City Centre Airport - Public Transportation, Toronto City Centre Airport - Airport Data, Toronto City Centre Airport - Lighting, Toronto City Centre Airport - Communications, Toronto City Centre Airport - Navigation

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