The local employee count doubled to about 300 in recent months, says De Havilland Canada’s vice-president for corporate affairs
A manufacturing plant in North Saanich will be busy building parts for Europe’s next generation of firefighting planes until the next decade.
New and current customers are reaching out “given the changing climate and the need to refresh the fleet,” Sweeney said.Canadair CL firefighting planes have formed the backbone of European and North American aerial firefighting fleets for decades.De Havilland, which purchased the program from Bombardier in 2016, restarted the line when European customers committed to ordering 22 DHC-515 aircraft in 2022.
Davor Božinovic, Croatia’s deputy prime minister and minister of interior, signed a €105-million agreement for two DHC-515 aircraft on March 23, which is expected to increase Croatia’s firefighting aerial capabilities by a third. The country experienced massive fires last year that killed 20 people and decimated vast tracts of forest and farmland.
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