Boeing operates the following main locations in Canada:[1]
Boeing Winnipeg (
Winnipeg, MB) — a
composite manufacturing plant established in 1971, and the largest aerospace composite manufacturing centre in Canada.
Boeing Vancouver (
Richmond, BC) — provider of aviation software, originally established as AeroInfo Systems in the 1990s. It is concerned with
enterprise-level software development for commercial and defence customers.
Boeing Vancouver Labs in
downtown Vancouver, opened in September 2016 as an extension to the Richmond facility, is concerned with development of Boeing AnalytX-driven software and consulting services.
Boeing Montreal / Jeppesen Montreal (
Montreal, QC) — 40 Montreal-based employees of the Boeing subsidiary
Jeppesen provide
crew management and logistics software for the aviation industry.[5]
Boeing Ottawa (
Ottawa, ON) — home to
Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Boeing Global Services Global Marketing in Canada, as well as a medium- to
heavy-lift helicopter program office (supporting the RCAF CH-147F Chinook fleet).[6]
Boeing Distribution Canada — four customer service centres across Canada that distribute aircraft parts and offer repair services.
The Boeing Company has been producing aircraft in Canada since the 1930s:
Boeing Aircraft of Canada was formed on the outskirts of
Vancouver in 1939, where it built four
Boeing C-204 Thunderbird biplane flying boats with detail changes from the US variants, four single-engine
Boeing 40H-4 landplane transports, and one of the locally developed
Boeing-Canada A-213 Totem monoplane flying boat. Beginning in 1939 they built 17
Blackburn Sharks under licence for the
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), before starting on 240
Consolidated Catalina I flying boats for
Royal Air Force (RAF) and RCAF patrol bomber squadrons. 67 Catalina VIs were also built and supplied to the RAF and Royal Australian Air Force. The plant was located at
Sea Island, and has since been re-developed as the
Burkeville residential area, named for former Boeing-Canada President Stanley Burke.[7]
Boeing Vertol Helicopters,
Arnprior Division, from 1954 to 2005 was a repair and overhaul facility for
Boeing Helicopters used by the
Canadian Forces and commercial operators. It was a
Department of National Defence facility originally purchased by
Vertol Helicopters prior to merging with Boeing. The site is now home to
Arnprior Aerospace, formed from divesting from Boeing in 2005.
Boeing Toronto, from 1997 to 2005, was a manufacturer of
Boeing 717 wings, Delta rocket parts, the C-17 transport and the 737 airliner. This was a former
McDonnell-Douglas Canada location which had been used by them from 1967 to 1997 which was absorbed by Boeing in 1997.
KC-10 and
MD-11 aircraft wings and related components,
MD-80 wings, empennage and cabin floors, and
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and CF-18 side panels and pylons were made there at that time. This was the Malton facility adjacent to
Toronto Pearson International Airport that before McDonnell-Douglas it had been the
Avro Canada plant where the
Avro CF-105 Arrow was built. The plant was closed in 2005 after Boeing ended production of 717 and most of the buildings have since been torn down. TransAlta Corporation co-generation plant built in 1992 remained after Boeing plant demolished but it was finally demolished after 2019 following impact assessment.[8]