De Havilland Canada
and still building
- Founded
- 2019
- Founder
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Parent company
- Longview Aviation Capital (Until 2024)
- Employees
- 2,100
- Products
- DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-8 Dash 8, DHC-515 Firefighter
About the manufacturer
De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (DHC) is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer founded in 2019 that purchased the aircraft programs of the original de Havilland Canada, which was founded in 1928. The aircraft types currently in production or planned for production include the DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-8 Dash 8, and DHC-515 Firefighter turboprop aircraft. The company's primary facilities were located in the Downsview area of Toronto, Ontario, but in 2022, it was announced that it would relocate primary manufacturing to De Havilland Field, under development near Calgary, Alberta. The original de Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Limited, was created in 1928 by the British de Havilland Aircraft Company to build Moth aircraft for the training of Canadian airmen, and subsequently after the Second World War, designed and produced indigenous designs. In the 1980s, the government of Canada under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney privatized DHC and in 1986 sold the aircraft company to then Seattle-based Boeing. DHC was eventually acquired by Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace in 1992 after cumulative losses of US$636 million over five years under Boeing. In 2006, Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia, purchased the type certificates for all the…
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