As Bombardier has decided to remove itself from a number of its legacy aviation programs, Viking Aerospace has been willing to step in.  It acquired the rights for a number of legacy de Havilland Canada products first and put the DHC-6 Twin Otter back into production.  Since then it has acquired the CL215/415 amphibious waterbomber program and very recently the Dash-8/Q400 program.  It has its headquarters at Victoria International so, after getting off the ferry and having a spot of lunch, we swung by to have a look.  They have a very nice, modern headquarters building which stands out amongst the other airport buildings.

I took a look on the ramp.   Their demonstrator Twin Otter was parked up along with a couple of clean airframes that looked like they were destined for new customers.  A CL-215 was parked a bit further out.  I discovered shortly afterwards that this one is about to undergo an upgrade program.  There were plenty of people going in and out of the offices but the ramp was sadly quiet.  No movements while I was there although we had places to be so I didn’t hang around for long.