Bombardier Announces New Roles for Wichita Site
Bombardier sees opportunity to grow its defense business in Wichita.
Tonya Sudduth, head of U.S. strategy for Bombardier, speaks at a ceremony yesterday at the company's Wichita site marking its transition from Learjet production to U.S. headquarters and home to its newly named defense unit. (Photo: Jerry Siebenmark/AIN)
Tonya Sudduth, head of U.S. strategy for Bombardier, speaks at a ceremony yesterday at the company's Wichita site marking its transition from Learjet production to U.S. headquarters and home to its newly named defense unit. (Photo: Jerry Siebenmark/AIN)

After pushing out its final production Learjet 75 a few weeks ago, Bombardier announced at a ceremony today that the business jet OEM’s 1-million-sq-ft Wichita site will serve as the Montreal-based company’s U.S. headquarters and will be home to its newly named Bombardier Defense unit, which will be led by v-p Steve Patrick. In concert with the defense unit, Bombardier confirmed that it received additional firm orders for modified Global 6000s from the U.S. Air Force as part of a potential $465 million order for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node program.