De Havilland Canada

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (DHC) is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer founded in 2018 that purchased the aircraft programs of the original de Havilland Canada, which was founded in 1928. The aircraft types currently in production or planned for production include the DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-8 Dash 8, and DHC-515 Firefighter turboprop aircraft. The company's primary facilities were located in the Downsview area of Toronto, Ontario, but in 2022, it was announced that it would relocate primary manufacturing to De Havilland Field, under development near Calgary, Alberta.

The original de Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Limited was created in 1928 by the British de Havilland Aircraft Company to build Moth aircraft for the training of Canadian airmen, and subsequently after the Second World War, designed and produced indigenous designs. In the 1980s, the government of Canada under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney privatized DHC and in 1986 sold the aircraft company to then Seattle-based Boeing. DHC was eventually acquired by Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace in 1992 after cumulative losses of US$636 million over five years under Boeing.

In 2006, Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia, purchased the type certificates for all the original out-of-production de Havilland Canada designs (DHC-1 to DHC-7). In November 2018, Viking Air's holding company, Longview Aviation Capital, announced the acquisition of the Dash 8 and Q400 program, the last DHC designs still held by Bombardier, along with the rights to the DHC name and trademark. The deal, which closed on 3 June 2019 following regulatory approval, brought the entire Canadian de Havilland product line under the same banner for the first time since 2006, under a new holding company named De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited. In addition, the company has acquired the Canadair CL-415 program to produce the DHC-515.