Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier Aerospace is a division of the Bombardier group. It is the third largest aircraft company in the world in terms of yearly delivery of commercial airplanes overall, and the fourth largest in terms of yearly delivery of regional jets.

The aerospace division was launched with the 1986 acquisition of Canadair, at the time owned by the Government of Canada and a company that had recorded the then largest loss in history of any Canadian corporation. Politically, the Federal Government could not allow the Montreal, Quebec based company to close, and any hints that it might do so were met with media stories of the Government's Avro Arrow disaster.

After acquiring Canadair and restoring it to profitability, Bombardier acquired in 1989 the near-bankrupt Short Brothers aircraft manufacturing company in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was followed in 1990 by the acquision of the bankrupt Learjet Company of Wichita, Kansas, builder of the world-famous Learjet business aircraft and finally the money-losing Boeing subsidiary de Havilland Aircraft of Canada based in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

CMC Electronics

CMC Electronics Inc. (CMC Électronique) is a Canadian electronics company.

The company was founded in 1903 as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada. In 1925 the company was renamed Canadian Marconi Company. In 1948 English Electric purchased the UK based Marconi Company and in 1953 acquired 50.6% of Canadian Marconi Company.

In 1968 English Electric was itself purchased by The General Electric Company plc (GEC), which took control of the 50.6% share of CMC.

The company's head office and main operations are in Montreal, Quebec; other operating facilities have been located in Cornwall and Kanata, Ontario.

Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group

Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group Ltd was formed in 1998 from the assets of BTR Aerospace Group when they were purchased by Doughty Hanson & Co.

In 2004 the company was sold and split into two. The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, acquired the Standard Aero division, now known as Standard Aero Ltd. Standard Aero is a Canadian aircraft component manufacturer headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Meggitt plc acquired the Dunlop Aerospace Design and Manufacturing division.

Heli-One

Heli-One is the world’s largest helicopter support company, other than the original manufacturers, and is a subsidiary of CHC Helicopter. The company has more than 900 employees working in Canada, the United States, Norway, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Heli-One is based in Richmond, Canada and has major facilities in Richmond, Stavanger, Aberdeen and Texas. Heli-One provides comprehensive helicopter support services for a variety of helicopter types. Primarily, Heli-One focuses on services for Bell 212, Bell 412, Sikorsky S-76, Sikorsky S61N, Sikorsky S92, Eurocopter AS332 (Super Puma) and Eurocopter AS365 (Dauphin) helicopters. Heli-One offers integrated logistics support, NDT, machining, painting and a host of other services.

Heli-One USA (located in Texas) mainly provides helicopter completion and modification services. Aircraft can be outfitted for offshore, EMS, SAR, VIP and various other missions. Heli-One has built a brand new state-of-the-art facility at Boundary Bay Airport Canada. The new facility is approximately 235,000 sq ft (21,800 m2) and was completed in mid 2008.

Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd.

Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd. is an Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) which operates two Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities in Canada, one in Kelowna, British Columbia, and the other in Hamilton, Ontario.

Kelowna Flightcraft also owns Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter, a Canada-based charter company, and Allied Wings, contract operator of the Canadian Forces Contracted Flying Training and Support program.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) is a Richmond based, Canadian information services and products company, employing over 3000 people throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, under the MDA brand name.

MDA provides commercial customers, industrial partners and governments (civil, defense, security, space, and R&D agencies) with such information systems and solutions as: Space robotics, satellite information and payload systems, Earth observation, airborne, surveillance, intelligence, and environmental monitoring, Radar and optical satellite imagery, and, remote sensing
Mapping products, Advanced Research and Development services for government, defense and commercial customers, Robotic surgery research via its NeuroArm development program and Real estate information products.

Odyssey Moon

On December 6, 2007, Odyssey Moon was the first team to register for the Google Lunar X Prize competition, an event that hopes to rekindle the efforts of man to return to the moon. The competition is referred to as "Moon 2.0" and will be comprised of other private organizations like Odyssey Moon Limited, the commercial lunar enterprise that makes up this team. Each team will be competing for a $20 million first prize, a $5 million second prize, and additional $5 million in (potential) bonuses.

The team's goals are to build and deploy a robotic lander that will deliver exploration as well as scientific payloads to the moon. The new lander/spacecraft has been dubbed "MoonOne (M-1)". These efforts have been contracted to MacDonald Dettwiler, a Canadian corporation with a successful history of providing technical space solutions for several NASA projects including the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

The Planetary Society, an international space interest group co-founded by Carl Sagan, has joined Odyssey Moon's efforts, specifically with public outreach and coordination between public and private organizations.

Odyssey Moon Limited is based on The Isle of Man, and is the design of Robert D. Richards. His goals include developing the first commercial enterprise that utilizes the energy and resources on the moon. To achieve this end, the team enlisted the part-time consultant services of Alan Stern, NASA's former top-rank planetary scientist. On September 22, 2008, another veteran of NASA joined Odyssey Moon. Jay Honeycutt was named President and will responsible for all programs and commercial launch operations. He brings a great deal of expertise in managing large scale engineering operations. His experience at NASA was diverse. He was director of the Kennedy Space Center for several years and was director of Shuttle Management and Operations for more than five years. Outside of NASA, another part of his forty years of professional experience was as president of Lockheed Martin Space Operations from 1997-2004.