Ontario's leading aerospace companies have an edge that helps them win major contracts in global markets.

Innovation. It's part of our aerospace heritage, starting from before the first de Havilland Beaver pioneered STOL technology and continuing through to the delivery of Dextre – the two-armed robot – to the International Space Station.

That innovation edge is part of the reason why made-in-Ontario components are involved in more than 100 aerospace programs around the world, including the Airbus A380, Boeing 787 and the U.S.-led Joint Strike Fighter.

• More than 350 companies
• 23,000 employees
• Sales of almost $6.5 billion
• Export-oriented, with customers and project partners across the U.S. and around the world.

Ontario's aerospace industry includes a "who's who" of market leaders, including Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney Canada, L-3 Communications, Goodrich Landing Gear, Messier-Dowty, Honeywell, Magellan Aerospace and more:

Some of Ontario's world-leading aerospace companies Aero structures Magellan Aerospace Commercial helicopters Eurocopter Canada Conversion/upgrade/retrofit L-3 Communications CMRO Field Aviation Kelowna Flightcraft Voyageur Airways Electronic systems Esterline CMC Electronics L-3 Communications Electronic Systems Hispano-Suiza Canada Environmental systems Honeywell Canada Flight simulators and visual systems Atlantis Systems International Gear-boxes and transmissions Northstar Aerospace Integrated space robotics systems MDA Landing gear systems Goodrich Messier-Dowty Héroux-Devtek Light aircraft Diamond Aircraft Motion control components Curtiss-Wright Controls EM Technologies Optical/Visual Systems Raytheon Canada L-3 Communications WESCAM Regional and business aircraft Bombardier Aerospace Satellite communication systems EMS SATCOM Small and medium turbine engines Pratt & Whitney Canada Space hardware subsystems COM DEV Special purpose aircraft Bombardier Aerospace Found Aircraft Canada Unmanned aerial vehicles MMIST