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I wasn't able to read the article to see what the timelines are, but here's another article (below) relating to the water bomber production. It mentions DeHavilland going ahead with it, and mentions them being assembled in Calgary. I don't believe there are any current production facilities, so production would be at the new facilities by Strathmore?

calgaryherald.com

Varcoe: Demand grows for Canadian-made water bombers as De Havilland aims to build new 'Super Scoopers'

Calgary-based De Havilland says interest in its new amphibious firefighting aircraft is growing as countries battle wildfires from the air.
calgaryherald.com calgaryherald.com
 
Cowtown said:
The DeHavilland project hasn’t even started construction. Is there already another facility in Calgary?
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That facility is quite a ways off yet, but deHavilland looks to be starting their transitioning of the head office to Calgary. They've been posting a slew a Calgary jobs. Engineers, accountants, HR, etc..
 
Surrealplaces said:
I was wondering about that. I don't think it's for manufacturing, but perhaps maintenance or testing, etc.?
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They do remanufacturing and completions of water bombers and twin otters currently along with other services for various Dash 7 and 8 variants, and other dehavilland models) It is marked as Longview Aviation Services (by Canada post's sorting plant) and Viking Air (near the aviation museum) on google maps.

Longview (mixed in with some Central Mountain Air:
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Surrealplaces said:
I was wondering about that. I don't think it's for manufacturing, but perhaps maintenance or testing, etc.?
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I believe they stated that the first several new water bombers (the DHC-515) will be built in their current facilities at YYC (they have multiple buildings scattered around as @darwink posted) until their new factory (de haviland field) is ready.
 
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