de Havilland Canada (1928–1986)

The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Limited (DHC) was an aircraft manufacturer with facilities based in what is now the Downsview area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The original location of de Havilland Canada later became the site of the Canadian Air and Space Museum located in what is now Downsview Park.

The aircraft company was established 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 privatized DHC and in 1986 sold the aircraft company to then Seattle-based Boeing, which renamed the company to Boeing of Canada Ltd., marking the end of DHC as an independent aircraft manufacturer. The company was put up for sale in 1988 and was eventually acquired by Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace in 1992, where it continued to exist as the newly formed de Havilland Inc. until 1998.

In 2006, Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia purchased the type certificates for all the original out-of-production de Havilland designs (DHC-1 to DHC-7), and in November 2018, Viking Air's holding company, Longview Aviation Capital, announced that it is to acquire the Q400 program, along with the rights to the de Havilland name and trademark. The deal, which closed in June 2019, brought the entire de Havilland product line under the same banner for the first time in decades under the new De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited.