Magellan Aerospace Corporation is a Canadian

Canada

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 manufacturer of aerospace systems and components. Magellan also repairs and overhauls, tests, and provides aftermarket support services for engines, and engine structural components. The company's business units are divided into the product areas of aeroengines, aerostructure

Aerostructure

An aerostructure is a component of an aircraft's airframe. This may include all or part of the fuselage, wings, or flight control surfaces. Companies that specialize in constructing these components are referred to as "aerostructures manufacturers," though many larger aerospace firms with a more...

s, rockets and space, and specialty products. Its corporate offices in Mississauga, Ontario

Mississauga, Ontario

Mississauga is a city in Southern Ontario located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. With an estimated population of 734,000, it is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality, and has almost doubled in population in each of the last two decades...

, Magellan operates in facilities throughout Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Magellan is a component supplier for the Airbus A380

Airbus A380

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. Due to its size, many airports had to modify and improve facilities to accommodate it...

, the Boeing 787

Boeing 787

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-range, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It seats 210 to 290 passengers, depending on the variant. Boeing states that it is the company's most fuel-efficient airliner and the world's first major airliner to use...

 Dreamliner, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and Bombardier

Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier Aerospace is a division of Bombardier Inc. and is the third-largest airplane manufacturer in the world. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.- History :...

's complete line of business and commuter aircraft. Magellan also supplies gas turbine components for airplanes, helicopters, and military vehicles such as the M-1 Abrams tank.

History

Magellan was formed in 1996 from the remains of Fleet Industries, a subsidiary of the US-based Fleet Aerospace located in Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie is a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly across the river from Buffalo, New York....

. They produced products and services for the Canadian military, as well as subassemblies for aviation companies.

Through the 1990s Magellan expanded, buying a number of Canadian aviation companies. These included Orenda Aerospace (now Magellan Repair, Overhaul and Industrial) in Toronto, Bristol Aerospace

Bristol Aerospace

Bristol Aerospace is a Canadian aerospace firm located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is an operating division of Magellan Aerospace.-History:Bristol Aerospace began in 1930 as the MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Company. Brothers Jim and Grant MacDonald moved to Winnipeg from Nova Scotia in 1904 to start a...

 of Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Chicopee Manufacturing in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

 and Haley Industries

Haley Industries

Haley Industries is a Canadian company which manufactures lightweight metal castings for use in aerospace applications. It was a prime contributor to the Avro Arrow aircraft project.-Origins:...

. Several US companies were also added, including Aeronca (formerly part of the US-based portions of Fleet), AMBEL Precision Manufacturing, Ellanef Manufacturing, Middleton Aerospace and Presto Casting Company

Presto Casting Company

Presto Casting Company was founded in 1965 by Mel Borovay, Jim Herman, and Earl Brocious. These three gentlemen originally met and worked together at another Phoenix based aerospace foundry....

. They also purchased the assets of Mayflower Aerospace

Mayflower Aerospace

Mayflower Aerospace, an aerospace component design-to-manufacture organization, is a division of Magellan Aerospace of Toronto. The Mayflower division was purchased by Magellan in October 2003 because of Mayflower's expertise in implementing the DELMIA VNC development system from Dassault...

 in England, becoming Magellan Aerospace UK in 2003.
The Fleet Aerospace division was closed in 2003, was sold, and later re-opened as Fleet Canada Inc

Fleet Canada

Fleet Canada Inc., the successor to the Fleet Aerospace Inc division of Magellan Aerospace Inc, is a manufacturer of aerospace structures, component parts, and assemblies to approved design data. It is located in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, where it has operated from the same site for more than 75...

. Magellan Aerospace is now an integrated, international company and all of its subsidiaries are wholly owned, operating under the Magellan name.

Projects

Magellan Aerospace also manufactures structures and assemblies for commercial and defence aircraft manufacturers:

• General Electric - F101, F110, F404, F414, J79, J85, CF34, CF700, CJ610, LM2500, LM7000, CFE738, T64, CF6
• Pratt & Whitney - PW100 Series, PW300 Series, PW500 Series, PW 200, PW4000, PT6, TF33, JT9D, JT15D
• Rolls Royce - RTM322, RB211, T406, T800, RR Trent and RB211Industrial, AE 3007, F136
• Honeywell - AS900, AGT1500 (used in the M-1 Abrams tank), ALF507, TF40/50, T53 (used in the UH-1 helicopter), T55, LF502
• Volvo - RM12
• A380 Inner Fixed Trailing Edge

Capabilities

• Engine core manufacturing
• Exhaust systems and flow paths
• Engine and component repair and overhaul
• Sand casting
• Materials and engine testing
• Composite structures and assemblies
• Bonded engine and structure components
• Machined components
• Aircraft refurbishment
• Engineering services (Detail Stress/Design of Aerostructures using CATIA/ MSc PATRAN/NASTRAN Classical Hand Calcs)
• Rocket weapons systems
• Rocketry fuel production
• Suborbital rocket systems
• Meteological rocket systems
• Space and satellite subsystems and components
• Industrial power packages - OT3 engines
• Wire strike protection for helicopters
• Engine development testing services
• Engine test facility maintenance support