A Bombardier Global 7500 jetliner is photographed during a press conference in Mississauga, Ont., on Dec. 4, 2019.Bombardier Inc. says it has secured a long-term lease from the Greater Toronto Airports Authority to build its flagship business jet at Pearson airport.
The high-tech plant would take over final assembly of Bombardier’s Global business jet series, which is currently assembled about 20 kilometres away at the company’s Downsview facility.Bombardier says the one-million-square-foot factory will house thousands of employees who carry out highly skilled tasks such as attaching the wings to the fuselage.
The Global 7500, along with the new Global 5500 and 6500, come partly as a response to products from rival business jet manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. as demand for the larger jetliners keeps rising. Bombardier announced last year it would sell its Q400 turboprop business, which churned out up to 30 of the planes each year at its Downsview facility, to a subsidiary of Longview Aviation Capital for about US$300 million.
globebusiness And where exactly are they going to do that? Not exactly alot of real estate at YYZ.
globebusiness Scary to think that anything built by Bombardier is flying through our airspace