Bombardier Shows Off New Assembly Facility At Toronto Pearson International Airport

Nov 15,2024 Leave a comment By The Lilly Commercial Team

Montreal aerospace giant has operations rolling at new aircraft assembly centre

Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier has upgraded its operation in Ontario.

The company is highlighting the 550,000-square-foot Bombardier Aircraft Assembly Centre at the Toronto Pearson International Airport it has occupied since May. The facility contains a 120,000-square-foot test hangar nearby.

Bombardier’s facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport in spans over 700,000 square feet. (Bombardier)

About 2,000 Bombardier employees work at the site to assemble a series of aircraft models from within a giant final assembly building. The operation includes a U-shaped production line that includes a series of four robots that drill, countersink and install fasteners using QR codes and floor reference systems.

The production is complete when the tail, fuselage, wings, landing gear, cockpit are all installed, as explained in an email from David Murray, Bombardier’s executive vice president, manufacturing, IT and Bombardier operational excellence system.

Once tested and certified, the newly assembled planes are flown to Montreal to have the interior installed and painted and the aircraft are then delivered to customers.

Two thousand employees and four robots help assemble the planes before they are flown to Montreal to be completed. (Bombardier)

Next year, Bombardier is also planning to begin production on the Bombardier Global 8000, billed as “the world’s fastest and longest-range purpose-built business jet innovatively crafted with the smoothest ride and the industry’s healthiest cabin,” as Murray describes it.

The facility was also designed to have plenty of natural light, a dehumidifying system and advanced noise-reduction technology.

Bombardier relocated its assembly operations to Pearson after many years at its Downsview facility.

“With the optimization of production, it became too big, especially after the sale of De Havilland in 2018. Our footprint at Downsview saw us use only 35 of 375 acres for manufacturing. For comparison, the new Bombardier Aircraft Assembly Centre takes up 41 acres for the same output of finished aircraft,” said Murray. “The Pearson location is also strategic because it gives us the possibility to use an existing airport as needed, which is what has already proven optimal in our other locations, such as in Montreal.”

Bombardier moved into the new facility in May. (Bombardier)

Bombardier is ranked as the 16th highest-earning aerospace company in the world according to a new survey by Flight International, after registering a profit of $793 million in 2023 on sales of over $8 billion.

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