Montréal's aerospace industry: Leading the world
Montréal is one of the few places in the world where all the parts needed to
build an airplane can be found within a 30-km radius! With 42,000 aerospace jobs
(accounting for 98% of the sector province wide), the greater Montréal region is
among the world’s leading aerospace hubs, together with Seattle and
Toulouse.
- Contractors 24,140 jobs, annual revenues of $8.05 billion
- Equipment manufacturers 8,780 jobs, annual revenues of
$2.75 billion
- Specialized sub-contractors 9,280 jobs, annual revenues
of $1.25 billion
Bombardier Aeronautics • Bell Helicopter Textron Canada • Pratt & Whitney
Canada • CAE • L-3 Communications • MAS (Canada) • Rolls-Royce Canada • Air
Canada Technical Services • Turbomeca • Héroux-Devtek • Messier-Dowty • General
Electric • Goodrich • Honeywell • CMC Electronics • MDA Space Missions •
Rheinmetall Canada • Thales Canada • Sonaca NMF Canada • Innotech-Execair •
Howmet (Alcoa Group) • Sargent Canada • LSI (Luminescent Systems Canada) • GFI
(an operating unit of Thomas & Betts) • Claro Précision • Tecnikrome
Aerospace
A structural project
On March 15, 2011, a press conference announced a new structuring project
which will reinforce Montreal's aerospace training capacity. See video below (in
French)
