Originally Posted by
tdracer
Don't forget, Boeing owned Canadair for a while - and it turned out to be a huge money pit (IIRC, the total write-off was in excess of $1 Billion US, and that was 30 years ago when the dollar was worth a whole lot more).
Boeing never owned Canadair - that was DeHavilland, Toronto. Bombardier bought DeH from Boeing. BTW when I worked at the Lazy B back in the 70s, they were reported as receiving 12.5% of all the costs of running their Seattle area plants from the USAF just to keep the facility running in case it was needed for War Production. Any discussion of CSeries pricing should include that it has significant US content - engines, APU & Avionics are all American.