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Ontario's Aerospace Products and Services

Innovation that soars

Aerospace industry leaders worldwide are finding the solutions they need in Ontario. Greener, more efficient technologies. Leading-edge products. Exceptional quality services.

Ontario's aerospace industry includes more than 350 companies. Sales top $6.5 billion annually with more than 70% of it generated by exports. That's a lot of satisfied customers.

Niche market capabilities include:

commercial, business and special-purpose aircraft
unmanned aerial vehicles
structural components
satellite sub-systems
flight simulators
optical/visual systems
electronic systems.

Top 5 Reasons to choose Ontario suppliers

Innovative solutions. Through aggressive, collaborative R&D programs, Ontario aerospace firms are discovering new applications for lightweight composites, advanced imaging technologies and new communications systems. We have the people, the infrastructure and business environment that make innovation profitable and help customers reach their mission-critical objectives.

Broad capabilities. Demanding customers across the spectrum find the technologies and components they need in Ontario: regional, business and special-purpose aircraft, turbine engines, landing gear systems, aerospace structures, environmental and electrical systems, and more.

High quality. Precision manufacturing capacity and a highly skilled workforce produce aerospace products that meet the most demanding specifications, from satellite components destined for the harsh environment of space to landing gear systems that bring you safely back down to earth.

Cost competitive. Customers worldwide are seeing significant cost-savings by sourcing in Ontario. It's not surprising. Aerospace manufacturing costs are lower here than in any G7 nation.

Just-in-time reliability. More than 100 major aerospace programs around the world use made-in-Ontario technologies and components. Our companies know how to produce and deliver what you need, on schedule, anywhere in the world.

Discover the next generation of aerospace technologies - more efficient, more reliable, more environmentally sustainable - now in production in Ontario. We have a history of introducing industry-changing innovations, from the de Havilland Beaver to space robotics.

100 More than 100 aerospace programs around the world - including the Airbus A380, Boeing 787 and the U.S.-led Joint Strike Fighter - all incorporate high quality, made-in-Ontario components. Our just-in-time distribution networks circle the globe.

Supplying the world's aerospace industry

Bombardier Aerospace is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative aviation products and has a worldwide network of service centres, parts depots and customer training facilities. The Toronto site is one of Bombardier's leading aircraft integration facilities, handling final assembly of Q-Series turboprops and Global business jets, as well as the wings for Learjet aircraft.

EMS Technologies is the leading provider of airborne connectivity systems. EMS solutions keep passengers and crew connected in-flight, over satellite and air-to-ground networks. Solutions include EMS SATCOM's eNfusion broadband™ high-speed data communications systems, EMS Formation's, in-flight entertainment and airborne wireless systems, and EMS Defense & Space Ku-Band antenna subsystems. EMS systems enable access to in-flight email, videoconferencing, Internet, voice, and IFE applications.

Magellan Aerospace is a fully integrated aerospace industry supplier with operations across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the company designs, engineers and manufactures aerospace systems and components for global aerospace markets, and proprietary products for military and space markets worldwide.

Messier-Dowty, a SAFRAN group company, is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of landing gear systems. Messier-Dowty landing gear are in service on more than 20,500 aircraft making over 35,000 landings every day. Messier-Dowty's Toronto, Ontario facility provides total capabilities from concept through in-service support. Major customers for the site include Boeing, Bombardier, Hawker Beechcraft and Sukhoi.

Neptec Design Group of Ottawa, Ontario, is a NASA prime contractor that designs and builds mission critical systems for the defence and space industries. With a reputation for space qualified hardware and software, Neptec's products are both intelligent and powerful, capable of inspecting, extracting, classifying, identifying and tracking objects.

TrueNorth Avionics of Ottawa, Ontario, is a world-class technology company focused on developing integrated communications solutions for business aviation, including telephony and broadband Internet. Its premier product, the Simphone airborne telephone, is an executive-class system designed to simplify telecommunications, combining ease of use, superior voice quality, advanced functions and unique personalization features, all at an unmatched level of value.

Ontario - come and grow your business here.

For more information about Ontario's products and services, please contact:

Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade,
International Trade Branch
www.ontarioexports.com

Ontario Aerospace Council
www.ontaero.org

For a list of international phone numbers to contact us:
www.ontarioexports.com/internationalcontact
Email: trade.officer@ontario.ca

Ontario Investment and Trade Centre
35th Floor
P.O. Box 1, 250 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 2L7
CANADA

Tel: +1-416-313-3469
Fax: +1-416-360-1817

All figures are in Canadian dollars unless noted otherwise