Business unit of IMP Group providing aircraft in-service support, heavy maintenance and design-approved modification and missionization engineering, plus aerostructures, wire-harness and avionics manufacturing for military operators.
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Business unit of IMP Group providing aircraft in-service support, heavy maintenance and design-approved modification and missionization engineering, plus aerostructures, wire-harness and avionics manufacturing for military operators.
Located at 693 Barnes Road, Enfield, Nova Scotia, at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. It is a business unit of IMP Group Limited rather than a separate legal entity. impaerospaceanddefence.com
States it is "one of Canada's longest-serving Design Approval Organizations (DAO)", with airworthiness approvals for major aircraft modifications. impaerospaceanddefence.com
Provides "full engineering services of piston to turbine conversions, full and combination cargo conversions" under its own design approvals. impaerospaceanddefence.com
Parent IMP Group was founded in 1967 and describes itself as "a privately held investment corporation", with its head office at 2651 Joseph Howe Drive, Halifax. impgroup.com
Received a $478,557 ACOA repayable contribution announced December 2023, recorded to I.M.P Group Limited, for a CNC component profiling and drilling machine. canada.ca
States it is "Canada's largest exclusively-third party Transport Canada-Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO)" and "Canada's longest-serving Design Approval Organization (DAO)". impaerospaceanddefence.com
Its DAO scope is modification work: "full engineering services of piston to turbine conversions; full and combination cargo conversions" plus special roles including maritime patrol and SAR. impaerospaceanddefence.com
States it employs "more than 2,400 engineering, technical, and support staff" under ISO 9001 and AS9100 registered systems, and runs an ISO 17025 certified calibration facility. impaerospaceanddefence.com
Says it is the first company delegated authority by the RCAF to design, certify and manufacture 3D-printed thermoplastic parts for a military aircraft; they now fly on the CP-140 Aurora fleet. impaerospaceanddefence.com
Designed and manufactured qualification, engineering-test and flight wire harnesses for the James Webb Space Telescope Fine Guidance System, selected by Honeywell in 2007. impaerospaceanddefence.com
Became principal Canadian subcontractor on Leonardo's CH-149 Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade in December 2022, delivering 13 of 16 upgraded helicopters from Halifax. verticalmag.com
The first upgraded CH-149 flew at Yeovil in July 2026, with IMP handling reassembly in Halifax. Design authority stays with Leonardo; IMP is production and assembly. verticalmag.com
Scope note: the roughly $1B reported for the Cormorant upgrade is Leonardo's prime-contract value. IMP's subcontract value is not disclosed. skiesmag.com
Completed its 100th CT-114 Tutor delivery cycle in March 2026 - a delivery cycle, not a hundredth airframe. The maintenance and modification work is done at CFB Trenton, Ontario. skiesmag.com
Its founding year is absent because it is a business unit, not a legal entity. The federal record is the parent I.M.P. Group Limited, corp 429418-1, itself dating only from a 2005 amalgamation. ised-isde.canada.ca
Products IMP Aerospace & Defence publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Additive flight hardware
Additively manufactured thermoplastic parts that IMP says it was the first company delegated authority by the RCAF to design, certify and manufacture for a military aircraft. They now fly on the CP-140 Aurora fleet.
SourceAircraft modification
Aircraft conversions engineered under its own design approvals - "full engineering services of piston to turbine conversions, full and combination cargo conversions" - plus special-role fits including maritime patrol and search and rescue.
SourceHow IMP Aerospace & Defence says its technology can be deployed and delivered.
In-service support, fleet management and maintenance across military, government and commercial airframes, delivered from six operating units across Canada.
Design-approved aircraft modification, missionization and modernization engineering, including avionics upgrades and piston-to-turbine and cargo conversions, under its own Design Approval Organization authority.
Wire harness design and manufacture, electronics repair, calibration, component manufacturing and post-processing.
IMP Aerostructures manufactures flight-critical aircraft assemblies and detail components for customers it names as Boeing, Bombardier, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, Stelia Aerospace and Spirit AeroSystems.
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
Regional Economic Growth through Innovation, ACOA (recorded to I.M.P Group Limited) - repayable contribution
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