Aircraft
Last Downsview Global 7500 Rolls Off Line
Bombardier has manufactured Globals in Downsview since the mid-1990s
The last Bombardier Global 7500 leaving Downsview.
The last Bombardier Global 7500 leaving Downsview. © Frederick K. Larkin

Bombardier has rolled out the final Global 7500 produced in Downsview, Ontario, ending an era for the Montreal-headquartered manufacturer at the assembly facilities it inherited with its 1992 acquisition of de Havilland from Boeing.

A spokesman confirmed that the “last fly away was this past weekend” and that there was no more aircraft production activity at the Downsview site, marking the full transition to its new Global jet facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The final copy left the facility on March 23.