Ildar Khalikov visits Bombardier plant in Montreal

On March 13, during his working trip to Canada Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov visited Bombardier production facilities in Montreal.

To the point, Bombardier Aerospace is a world leader in design and manufacture of civil, commercial, special-purpose and amphibious aircrafts. With headquarters in Montreal, the company has manufacturing sites around the world. Bombardier Aerospace is the world’s third largest manufacturer of civil aircrafts after Boeing and Airbus.

Looking around Bombardier plant, Ildar Khalikov and his party got acquainted with all production stages of Bombardier business-jets. To the point, it takes 11-12 months to manufacture one tailor-made jet.

Challenger 605 (passenger capacity – 8-13) and Challenger 300 (passenger capacity 8-10) aircrafts were demonstrated to Ildar Khalikov in the showroom.

Tatarstan delegation also looked around workshops, where lean manufacturing programme is being implemented.

Speaking about cooperation between Bombardier and Tatarstan, it was said that Tatarstan (in particular, Ak Bars Aero) has 15 CRJ 200 and six Challenger aircrafts. Ak Bars Aero is the third company in Russia by number of Bombardier aircrafts in own flying stock.

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An agreement to increase Bombardier aircraft maintenance base (Bombardier service center was opened in Tatarstan in August 2012) was signed at Tatarstan Government House with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov on April 16, 2013. The agreement presupposes setting up a line maintenance facility for Challenger 300 and Challenger 850 aircrafts, which are being operated in Tatarstan and Volga District.