On June 1, 1913, he beat " Bombardier " Billy Wells in Ghent, Belgium to become heavyweight champion of Europe.

The contract for rebuilding the rolling stock was awarded to Alstom, at a cost of $ 194. 2 million, beating Bombardier's bid by $ 35 million, though Bombardier claimed the contract was incorrectly awarded.

In 2006, due to Thunder Bay's struggling economy, Peterson traveled to Toronto, in order to secure Thunder Bay's Bombardier plant's bid to " Build Canadian and Buy Canadian ".

The Johnson and Evinrude brands were won by bid in February 2001 by Bombardier Recreational Products and the boat division by Genmar Corporation of Minnesota.

Two consortia of Momentis ( which included First Group, Bombardier Transportation, Bouygues and Jarvis Facilities ) and Airelink ( which included Arriva and Siemens Transportation Systems ) had bid on the construction and operation of Leeds Supertram which was intended to have opened in 2007 or 2008.

Learjet continues to operate as a subsidiary of Bombardier and manufactures jets under the Learjet name. The slogan was changed in 2012 to the Evolution of Mobility from We Move People.

With the acquisition of Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, Bombardier Transportation emerged as one of the largest manufacturers of railway rolling stock in the world.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

They will be built at Bombardier's Dandenong factory, with the propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier ’ s factories in Mannheim and Siegen, Germany, respectively.

* Viking Air-Canadian manufacturer that purchased the type certificates from Bombardier for all discontinued de Havilland Canada designs ( except for the Dash 8 Series 400 ), allowing Viking to build and sell them

From 2013 both the C stock and D stock fleets will gradually be replaced by new S stock trains from Bombardier Transportation.

LUL says these 40-year-old trains, part of the same fleet that also operates the Circle line, are " in an increasingly poor state ", and they are being replaced with new seven-car S7 stock air-conditioned trains from Bombardier Transportation, with delivery scheduled for completion by the end of 2014.

Later bilateral arrangements with individual NATO powers ( 1959 – 1983 ), the Military Training Assistance Plan, which has trained aircrews from developing countries since 1964 and NATO Flying Training in Canada ( NFTC ), since 1998, a partnership of the Canadian Forces, Bombardier Aerospace Corporation and participating air forces.

The World Trade Organization decided Brazil ran an illegal subsidy program, Proex, benefiting its national aviation industry from at least 1999-2000, and that Canada illegally subsidized its indigenous regional airliner industry, comprising Bombardier Aerospace.

The airline was founded by its first President Yolanda Suarez in September 2002 as Caribbean Sun Airlines in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and started operations in January 2003, with flights from San Juan's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport to Tortola, using Bombardier Dash 8-100 aircraft.

When the trade sanctions were lifted in early 1999, Libyan Arab Airlines could rebuilt its international network, and order new aircraft from manufacturers like Airbus, Bombardier or ATR.

On 12 May 2010, Swiss Federal Railways announced its largest order of rolling stock ; buying 59 double-deck EMUs from Bombardier, plus an option for another 100 trainsets.

Bombardier beetles are ground beetles ( Carabidae ) in the tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini — more than 500 species altogether — which are most notable for the defense mechanism that gives them their name: When disturbed, the beetle ejects a noxious chemical spray in a rapid burst of pulses from special glands in its abdomen.

Chepstow is serviced by Arriva Trains Wales ; there is a service provided by CrossCountry Trains from Cardiff Central to Nottingham, via Birmingham New Street, in peek commuter times, and operated by Class 170 diesel multiple units constructed by Bombardier in Derby.

On September 12, 2006, CommutAir announced that it would lease sixteen Bombardier Q-200 Dash 8 aircraft from Horizon Air.

* Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 was a Bombardier CRJ200 with a crew of two operating a ferry flight ( with no passengers ) from Little Rock, AR to Minneapolis, MN.

Bombardier CRJ200LR were chosen as the best option for flights operated from Ljubljana, which allowed for more flights to be flown directly and more frequent.

In spring 2003 Adria leased Bombardier CRJ100LR with 50 seats from Bombardier and was leased until January 2011.

The 6th Bombardier CRJ200LR with 50 seats was leased from GECAS.

During the Summer fleet consisted now out of an Airbus A320 ( 162 seats ), a leased Boeing B737-500 ( 112 seats ) from Ukraine International Airlines, 2 Bombardier CRJ900LR ( 86 seats ) and 7 Bombardier CRJ200LR ( 48 / 50 seats ) aircraft.

One series of newer stainless steel-bodied cars was built by Bombardier for the MBTA's Red Line service, from components manufactured in Canada and assembled in Barre, Vermont.

More recently the branding has been dropped, and new projects from all of Bombardier's various aircraft divisions are now known simply as Bombardier Aerospace.

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 ).

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

Almost all production business jets, such as General Dynamics ' Gulfstream and the Gates Lear Jet ( now built by Bombardier ), have had two or three engines, though the Jetstar, an early business jet, had four.

Today, the company's products include aircraft components, engine nacelles and aircraft flight control systems for its parent company Bombardier Aerospace, and for Boeing, Rolls-Royce Deutschland, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.

Each train consists of a General Motors / EMD F59PHI diesel-electric locomotive and between five and ten Bombardier BiLevel passenger carriages.

The institute's partners in the aerospace industry include Bombardier Aerospace, MD Robotics ( formerly Spar Aerospace ) and General Atomics.

The Korean firm saw off competition from short-listed bidders Alstom, CAF and a consortium of Bombardier, Siemens and Nurol for the 440-vehicle contract which was placed by the Ministry of Transport's General Directorate of Railways, Harbours & Airports.

" Bombardier acquired the assets and designs of Budd Company, Pullman Company, and American Locomotive Company / Montreal Locomotive Works, the latter of which continued in the locomotive business until 1985.

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.

An avid outdoorsman, in the early 1960's he was one of the first Minnesotans to buy a Ski-Doo snowmobile, a then-novel invention of Canada's Bombardier Company, and became a convert and booster of the machine.

It is operated under contract by the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company ( MBCR ) a joint partnership of Veolia Transportation, Bombardier Transportation and Alternate Concepts, Inc.

Christie is known to have represented Bombardier Transportation, URS Cole Sherman, Thales Group, Cubic Transportation Systems, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, Astral Media Outdoor, Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada, Greenwin Property Management Inc., Toronto Airport Limousine Association, Cinespace Studios, STV Inc., ACS-A Xerox Company and several other large entities.

Domestic flights are operated using Fokker 50, Saab 340, Airbus 319 and Bombardier Q400 aircraft.

Some commercial aircraft with turboprop engines include the Bombardier Dash 8, ATR 42, ATR 72, BAe Jetstream 31, Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, Saab 340 and 2000, Xian MA60, Xian MA600, and Xian MA700, Fokker 27, 50 and 60.

This engine arrangement survives into the 21st century on numerous twin engined Douglas DC-9 derivatives plus newer short haul and range turbofan powered regional aircraft such as the " regional jet airliners " built by Bombardier, Embraer and, until recently, Fokker.

The Douglas DC-9, Bombardier CRJ200, Embraer ERJ 145, Boeing 717, Boeing 727, Fokker 100, Vickers VC-10, Hawker Siddeley Trident, BAC 1-11, Tu-134, Tu-154, Il-62, and McDonnell Douglas MD-80, McDonnell Douglas MD-90, all used the T-tail for this reason.

ATB does maintenance on Fokker 70, Fokker 100 and Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft, while East Air does maintenance on Pipers and Let 410.

To replace the Fokker aircraft, Mesa signed an agreement with Bombardier to purchase 16 Canadair Regional Jets ( CRJ ) with options for 32 more.