* February 18 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile and founder of Bombardier Inc. ( b. 1907 )

In 1976 Canadair was sold back to the Canadian Government, which sold it to Bombardier Inc. in 1986.

Bombardier Aerospace is a division of Bombardier Inc. and is the third-largest airplane manufacturer in the world after Boeing and Airbus.

* Canadair-predecessor aerospace company ( once part of Canadian Vickers and General Dynamics ) acquired by Bombardier Inc. that became the core of Bombardier Aerospace

Orders for new aircraft plummeted, prompting Wichita's five largest aircraft manufacturers — Boeing Co., Cessna Aircraft Co., Bombardier Learjet Inc., Hawker Beechcraft and Raytheon Aircraft Co .— to slash a combined 15, 000 jobs between 2001 and 2004.

He is also a director of Trow Global, Bombardier Inc., The Great-West Life Assurance Company, The Investors Group, Ecopia Biosciences inc., and is Chairman of the Board of Victhom Human Bionics in Quebec City.

It remained a federal crown corporation until 1986 when, having experienced record losses during its development of the Challenger business jet, the Mulroney government sold it to Bombardier Inc.

In 1970 Lohner-Rotax was bought by Bombardier Inc.

* April 16-Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. ( d. 1964 )

* February 18 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. ( b. 1907 )

In October 1994, a new supplier — Bombardier Inc .— was awarded the contract for the new extensions as well as the job of replacing the MATRA technology that was operating on Phase I-A.

* Bombardier Inc., Toronto Stock Exchange symbol

* Bombardier Inc., a company mainly specializing in air and railway technology

* Bombardier Recreational Products, a maker of snowcats and snowmobiles, part of Bombardier Inc. until 2003

* Joseph Armand Bombardier ( 1907-1964 ), Canadian inventor and businessman, founder of Bombardier Inc.

* 1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, invented the snowmobile ( d. 1964 )

Bombardier is a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate company.

In 1937 Bombardier sold 12 snowmobiles — named the B7 and, in 1942, created l ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée company.

Bombardier customers had to prove that snowmobiles were essential to their livelihood in order to buy one.

After the war, Bombardier experienced another setback in his snowmobile business.

In 1948 the Quebec government passed a law requiring all highways and local roads to be cleared of snow ; the Bombardier company's sales fell by nearly half in one year.

Armand Bombardier therefore decided to diversify his business, first by producing tracked snowplows sized specifically for use on municipal sidewalks ( replacing horse-drawn vehicles ), then by making all-terrain vehicles for the mining, oil, and forestry industries.

Bombardier wanted to develop a fast, lightweight snowmobile that could carry one or two people.

Bombardier resumed his efforts to build a " miniature " snowmobile.

Armand and Germain developed several prototypes of the lightweight snowmobile and finally, the first Bombardier snowmobile went on sale in 1959. Bombardier BR100 + Groomer, mid engine, hard cab model

The Ski-doo was originally called the " Ski-Dog " because Bombardier meant it to be a practical vehicle to replace the dogsled for hunters and trappers.

In the first year, Bombardier sold 225 Ski-Doos ; four years later, 8, 210 were sold.

In 1975 Bombardier completed the purchase of the Moto-Ski company.

On February 18, 1964, J. Armand Bombardier died of cancer at age 56.

In 1967 L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée was renamed Bombardier Limited and on January 23, 1969, the company went public, listing on the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier () ( April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964 ) was a Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier.

The Bombardier beetle's powerful repellent spray inspired a Swedish company to develop a " micro mist " spray technology, which is claimed to have a low carbon impact ( compared to aerosol sprays ).

He is also chairman of various international advisory boards and councils for many international companies, including Power Corp. ( Montreal ), Bombardier ( Montreal ), the China International Trust and Investment Corp. ( Beijing ), J. P. Morgan Chase and Co. ( New York ), Violy, Byorum and Partners ( New York ), VS & A Communications Partners ( New York ), Independent Newspapers ( Dublin ) and General Enterprise Management Services Limited ( British Virgin Islands ).

Important locations of the civil aerospace industry worldwide include Seattle, Dayton, Ohio and St. Louis in the USA ( Boeing ), Montreal in Canada ( Bombardier ), Toulouse in France and Hamburg in Germany ( both Airbus / EADS ), the North-West of England and Bristol in the UK ( BAE Systems, Airbus and AgustaWestland ), as well as São José dos Campos in Brazil where Embraer is based.

Learjet is also a subsidiary of Bombardier based in Wichita, KS.

Bombardier had been in discussions with Mirabel, Quebec ( near Montreal ) and Kansas City, Missouri for a $ 375 million assembly plant, for its future Cseries aircraft, which Bombardier is marketing as a replacement for aging DC-9, MD-80, and early, smaller versions of the Boeing 737.

Canada's contribution is the LRC ( Light, Rapid, Comfortable ) train, built by Bombardier.

Although the borough is heavily residential, it is home to one of America's oldest traditional amusement parks, Kennywood Park ; the fourth largest shopping mall in the region, Century III ; advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology research and development facility, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory ; monorail manufacturer Bombardier ; US Steel's Irvin Plant ; Community College of Allegheny County's South Campus ; the Allegheny County Airport ; and various other businesses and industries.

The most heavily used route, the Tram T1, is a so-called ' tramway on tyres ', which is actually a guided busway based on Bombardier Transportation's Guided Light Transit ( GLT ) technology and using articulated trolleybuses.

The TTC's fleet of Mark I vehicles is aging and demand has exceeded the capacity of the TTC's Mark I fleet, but these vehicles are no longer produced by Bombardier, leaving the TTC with the prospect of either retrofitting the line for Mark II vehicles ( used successfully along with Mark I vehicles in Vancouver ) or streetcars ; or paying Bombardier to restart the production of Mark I vehicles.

); Montreal, Canada ( Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney Canada ); Toulouse, France ( Airbus / EADS ); and Hamburg, Germany ( Airbus / EADS ); as well as São José dos Campos, where the Brazilian Embraer company is based.

It is unclear whether Bombardier ever intends to create a working prototype of this vehicle.

These are the type of Bombardier A32, a model that is also used on the Tvärbanan light rail in Stockholm.

Headquartered in São José dos Campos, Embraer is the third-largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world, and the fourth-largest aircraft manufacturer after Canada's Bombardier when business jets are taken into account, and it is Brazil's top exporter of industrial products.