Bristol Aerospace Ltd.

Bristol Aerospace Ltd.

Magellan Aerospace, Winnipeg

Company

Precision Making Canada After 1945. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/instrument-precision/exhibits/show/making-after-1945

1954-01-01

Ongoing

Stony Mountain, MB (1962)

10210 Pie IX Blvd., Montreal, QC (1964)

Mississauga, ON (2024)

Aerospace

Rocketry

Manufacturing

Designing

Predecessor: MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Company, Winnipeg, MB

Predecessor (acquired by): Bristol Aeroplane Company, UK

Related (parent company acquired by): Rolls-Royce (UK)

Related (acquired by): Magellan Aerospace, Mississauga, ON

- 1930 – MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Company founded in Winnipeg by brothers Jim and Grant MacDonald, who moved from Nova Scotia. (Wikipedia)

- 1940s – Company building training aircraft, conducting wartime repairs, overhauls. (Wikipedia)

- 1954 – MacDonald Brothers purchased by UK-based Bristol Aeroplane Company, becoming Canadian subsidiary. (Wikipedia)

- 1962 – Company opens the Rockwood Propellant Plant, in Stony Mountain, Manitoba; company begins a partnership with Aerojet General, becoming Bristol Aerojet. (Wikipedia)

- 1964 – Company active at 10210 Pie IX Blvd., Montreal (Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory, (1964))

- 1965 – Black Brant rocket motors III, IV and V are tested. Bristol Aerospace takes complete control of Canadian Bristol Aerojet, renaming it Bristol Aerospace Ltd. (Wikipedia)

- 1967 – Parent company Bristol Aeroplane acquired by Rolls-Royce. (Wikipedia)

- 1997 – Rolls-Royce sells Bristol Aerospace to Magellan Aerospace, a then-primarily Canadian aerospace Company. Bristol becomes known as Magellan Aerospace, Winnipeg. (Wikipedia)

- 2024 - Company active with headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario.

“Bristol Aerospace” Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Aerospace) [04-09-24]

Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory, 1964 (1964)