RE:Reliability of sylvain faust sources ?amazing how precise he was for 2017... and then he released this on may first 2018 etc...
The Q400 Next Owner
Since I wrote that Bombardier found a buyer in China for its Q400, I have also reported soon after that someone in Ottawa did not like the idea. Same people who did not like the idea that Bombardier tries to enter into a partnership with China for its CSeries and told its management in Montreal to call back Airbus instead. (What else was Ottawa dealing with Airbus to act as an intermediary for them? Military contracts? The purchase of the new Search and Rescue Airbus C-295 replacing the current Buffalo CC-115 when Viking Air was offering its updated version, or was it about the replacement of the CF-18 with Airbus/Eurofighter?)
I was told a few months ago that Bombardier offered the Q400 to another "Canadian" aircraft manufacturer. Again, recently, I'm told the same thing from different sources. Who is it you asked? The same company who bought all de Havilland Canada designs from Bombardier 12 years ago, to the exception of just one, the DHC8, also known as the Q400. It is Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
https://www.fliegerfaust.com/cseries-airbus-update-2564977151.html right on. thanks for pointing that out. love his free newsletter.
good luck
clubhouse19 wrote: We all know how this ebded
Q400
"What I've been told is that Bombardier is selling the Q400 division in its totality to a buyer in China. After the Canadian Federal government asked Bombardier not to sell the CSeries to the Chinese who offered to purchase it --a program so heavily ladden with new technologies-- Ottawa let it be known it would be perfectly able to live with the transfer of the total ownership of the Q400 to China. With nearly all fuselage components already built in China it would now remain to be seen for how long Bombardier would continue supplying the aircraft's cockpit currently made in Downsview/Toronto, when would this be transfert to China with the rest of the fuselage construction . We should assume new assembly lines would be installed in China."
https://www.fliegerfaust.com/q400-sold-to-china-2502191746.html