MONTREAL — Aviation experts say Canada is losing expertise in the manufacturing of water bombers — just as demand for them is increasing.
“But we have to know where is and how we can access it very quickly,” he said.
Gradek said he believes the provinces should have bought more tanker planes. “In Canada, we have 55 Canadair planes — a combination of CL-215s and CL-415s,” he said, adding that “considering the number of fires currently in the country, it’s absolutely insufficient.”This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“We don’t build these planes in Canada anymore ⦠we try to modify, to maintain and update the components of these planes,” he said.
In 2016, Bombardier, which acquired Canadair in the 1980s, sold its water bomber program to British Columbia-based Viking Air. He said that if a Canadian province ordered a new CL-415, construction on it wouldn’t likely begin before 2030. He said he would like to see the federal government support Viking Air, “not only so that it can start producing the CL-415, but also to increase the planned production capacity.”Article content
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