Canadair
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Canadair Ltd. was a Canadian civil and military aircraft manufacturer that operated from 1944 to 1986. In 1986, its assets were acquired by Bombardier Aerospace, the aviation division of Canadian transport conglomerate Bombardier Inc.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Canadair Ltd.
- Company.image
- Canadair usine St-Laurent.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Canadair Plant One
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Bombardier
- Company.predecessor
- Canadian Vickers
- Company.successor
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Company.founder
- Benjamin W. Franklin
- Company.defunct
- 1986
- Company.location
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aerospace manufacturer
- Country
- Canada
- Headquarters
- Montreal
- Parent organization
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Industry
- aerospace industry
- Followed by
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Official website
- www.bombardier.com
- Image
- Canadair usine St-Laurent.jpg
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- Commons category
- Canadair
- inception
- 1944-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1986-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Canadair aircraft
- location of formation
- Montreal
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Canadair Ltd. was a Canadian civil and military aircraft manufacturer that operated from 1944 to 1986. In 1986, its assets were acquired by Bombardier Aerospace, the aviation division of Canadian transport conglomerate Bombardier Inc.
Canadair's origins lie in the establishment of a factory for Canadian Vickers in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, at Cartierville Airport. It was created as a separate entity by the government of Canada on 11 November, 1944.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canadair” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.