Have heard of them and the brother/cousin (angry ex employees) companies too.
Up till now they have kept a very low profile on purpose. Some of the sale history is "interesting" This and most canadian governments would throw them under the bus at a drop of the hat.
I suppose keeping a low profile makes sense given the absurdly ignorant/woke crowd in Ottawa.
We wouldn’t even sell the Philippines 15 Bell 412’s without the mandatory BS of “we want guarantees that these helicopters, being procured for both the military & national police, will
not be armed or used to cause harm to any people…”
As much as I genuinely want international customers for Canadian made products such as these, I don’t blame them at all for throwing their hands up & saying “Screw it, we’ll just buy helicopters from someone else…”
I could see them doing the same to this company, had the government not gone into business with them, and them making us look good.
(Maybe having something like this piece in the Canadian mainstream media would actually protect them from small minded & petty Canadian governments.)
(What better time to generate a positive public profile in this industry than now? And employing refugees from the conflict at that)