Boeing Canada
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Boeing Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Boeing, with operations in Winnipeg, MB, Richmond, BC, Montreal, QC and Ottawa, ON. Boeing employs more than 1,600 people in Canada.[2] Boeing Aircraft of Canada Limited was formed in 1929 by the American Boeing Airplane Company.[3]
In October 2008, Boeing Canada was named one of "
Manitoba's Top Employers, which was announced by the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper.[4]
Facilities
Boeing operates the following main locations in Canada:[1]
- Boeing Winnipeg (composite manufacturingplant established in 1971, and the largest aerospace composite manufacturing centre in Canada.
- Boeing Vancouver (enterprise-level softwaredevelopment for commercial and defence customers.
- Boeing Vancouver Labs in downtown Vancouver, opened in September 2016 as an extension to the Richmond facility, is concerned with development of Boeing AnalytX-driven software and consulting services.
- Boeing Montreal / Jeppesen Montreal (Montreal, QC) — 40 Montreal-based employees of the Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen provide crew management and logistics software for the aviation industry.[5]
- Boeing Ottawa (heavy-lift helicopter program office (supporting the RCAF CH-147F Chinook fleet).[6]
- Boeing Distribution Canada — four customer service centres across Canada that distribute aircraft parts and offer repair services.
Boeing Canada also operates the following:[1]
- C-17 field service support in Trenton, Ontario.
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes field service offices in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; and Calgary, Alberta
- Medium- to Petawawa, Ontario
- MHLH parts warehouse in Renfrew, Ontario.
Former Boeing holdings in Canada
The Boeing Company has been producing aircraft in Canada since the 1930s:
- Boeing Aircraft of Canada was formed on the outskirts of Consolidated Catalina I flying boats for Royal Air Force (RAF) and RCAF patrol bomber squadrons. 67 Catalina VIs were also built and supplied to the RAF and Royal Australian Air Force. The plant was located at Sea Island, and has since been re-developed as the Burkeville residential area, named for former Boeing-Canada President Stanley Burke.[7]
- Boeing Vertol Helicopters, Vertol Helicopters prior to merging with Boeing. The site is now home to Arnprior Aerospace, formed from divesting from Boeing in 2005.
- Bombardier Dash 8under the name De Havilland Aircraft of Canada. Facility sold with Longview moving production to Alberta.
- Boeing Toronto, from 1997 to 2005, was a manufacturer of Avro CF-105 Arrow was built. The plant was closed in 2005 after Boeing ended production of 717 and most of the buildings have since been torn down. TransAlta Corporation co-generation plant built in 1992 remained after Boeing plant demolished but it was finally demolished after 2019 following impact assessment.[8]
See also
- COM DEV International
- CMC Electronics
- Héroux-Devtek
- MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates
- Spar Aerospace
References
- ^ a b c "Boeing: Boeing Canada - Backgrounder".
- ^ "Boeing in Canada: True Partners, Real Value". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011.
- ISBN 9781473861367. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ "All jobs at Boeing Canada Operations | Eluta.ca". www.eluta.ca.
- ^ "Boeing: Boeing Canada - Jeppesen". www.boeing.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ "Boeing: Boeing Canada - Ottawa". www.boeing.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ "Burkeville - Neighbourhood with Aeronautical Street Names".
- ^ ERA Architects Inc. (20 March 2020). 2740 Derry Road East – Heritage Impact Assessment (Report).
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