
Fifty firefighters are currently tackling a huge blaze that broke out at Bombardier’s Belfast docklands factory on Sunday night.

Airbus is set to invest more than €1 billion in its A220 program this year, its chief executive, Guillaume Faury, has announced.

Bombardier says it will build a final assembly line for its Global business jet program at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Bombardier is selling two aerospace manufacturing facilities and a maintenance workshop to Spirit AeroSystems for US$500 million.

Bombardier says its Global 5500 and Global 6500 business jets have received their type certificate from Transport Canada.

This story from the Australian Aviation archives comes from October 2012, when Ellis Taylor wrote about the regional workhorse that is Bombardier Dash 8 in Australia.