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Magellan Aerospace

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TSX-listed Ontario manufacturer of aeroengine and aerostructure components for commercial and defence aircraft, with a Winnipeg space division building small satellite buses, avionics and Black Brant rockets.

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Company site: magellan.aero

TSX-listed Ontario manufacturer of aeroengine and aerostructure components for commercial and defence aircraft, with a Winnipeg space division building small satellite buses, avionics and Black Brant rockets.

  • FY2025 revenue reached $1,044.7 million, up 10.9% from $942.4 million in 2024, with net income of $39.4 million. magellan.aero

  • Awarded up to $6.9 million by the Canadian Space Agency in October 2025 for MINERAL, a lunar CubeSat orbiter and micro penetrator built in Winnipeg. magellan.aero

  • Designs, builds, tests and will operate DND's Redwing space domain awareness microsatellite, a project valued at $15.8 million; DND added a $900,000 nanosatellite contract option in 2024. magellan.aero

  • Its Winnipeg space heritage began with the first Black Brant rocket launch in 1959 and now includes five spacecraft in orbit. magellan.aero

  • Defence markets accounted for 38% of its 2025 revenue, up from 35% in 2024. magellan.aero

  • Builds F-35 Lightning II horizontal tail assemblies in Winnipeg for the CTOL variant under multi-year agreements with BAE Systems, renewed in December 2022. magellan.aero

  • Q2 2026 revenue was $305.6 million, up 22.3% year over year, with net income of $19.8 million against $5.4 million a year earlier. magellan.aero

  • Its 2025 annual report recognises $25.4 million repayable to Canadian government agencies as future royalty payments; the programs and agencies are not named in the filing. magellan.aero

  • Employs 3,973 people, approximately 33% of them covered by collective bargaining agreements, per its own 2025 annual report. magellan.aero

  • Its registered and head office is 3160 Derry Road East, Mississauga, Ontario, per its own 2025 annual report, and it remains listed on the TSX as MAL. magellan.aero

Products & Services

Company site: magellan.aero

Products Magellan Aerospace publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

Aeroengines

Aeroengine components

Manufacturing of aeroengine components and assemblies, with expertise in complex fabrications and rotatives, spanning engine cold section, hot section, shafts and specialty materials.

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Aerostructures

Airframe structures

Major assemblies and components for airframe structures, supplied to aerospace primes.

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Wire Strike Protection System

Helicopter safety system

A passive helicopter safety system that guides wires over the fuselage into cutting blades, with an upper cutter, lower cutter and windshield deflector. More than 30,000 kits delivered, available for over 70 military and commercial helicopter models.

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Black Brant

Sounding rocket

A sounding rocket family in service since 1962, with more than 1,000 launched and a vehicle success rate above 98 per cent, alongside custom rocket motor systems tailored to specific missions.

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Deployment & Services

Company site: magellan.aero

How Magellan Aerospace says its technology can be deployed and delivered.

Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

GE Aerospace (F414 revenue sharing)

Executed amendment to a long-term revenue-sharing agreement (April 2025) adding F414-GE-400K components; Magellan is sole-source for the KF-21, US Navy spares and Gripen F414-39E for seven years.

GE Aerospace (Gripen MRO)

Memorandum of understanding (July 2026) to establish Canadian MRO for the F414-GE-39E in Mississauga. Explicitly predicated on Canada proceeding with the Gripen E.

TKMS (thyssenkrupp Marine Systems)

Executed teaming agreement (February 2026) establishing a framework for heavyweight torpedo production and in-service support for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project. Not a production contract.

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Executed contract extensions and new manufacturing programme awards (April 2025) for complex machined components, delivered from Tumakuru, Karnataka, India through 2034.

Aequs Private Limited

Memorandum of understanding only (March 2025) to explore a business plan for a proposed 50/50 aerospace sand-casting facility at the Belagavi Aerospace Cluster, India.

Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. Canadian Space Agency — MINERAL lunar CubeSat orbiter and micro penetrator — procurement contract

  2. National Defence / DRDC — Redwing space domain awareness microsatellite — R&D procurement contract

  3. Regional Economic Growth through Innovation, PrairiesCan (recorded to subsidiary Magellan Aerospace Limited, Winnipeg Division) - contribution

  4. Western Diversification Program, Western Economic Diversification Canada — contribution

  5. Green Industrial Facilities and Manufacturing Program, Natural Resources Canada — contribution

  6. Class Grant and Contribution Program, Canadian Space Agency (next-generation spacecraft command and data handling) — contribution

  7. Class Grant and Contribution Program, Canadian Space Agency — contribution

  8. Government of Manitoba (provincial, distinct from the federal PrairiesCan award) - grant supporting Winnipeg facility investment, repayable only on covenant breach; received in full Q3 2025

People

Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.

Phillip C. Underwood

President & Chief Executive Officer

Elena M. Milantoni

Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary

Technology Focus

Company site: magellan.aero

Terms the company uses about its own work.

AerostructuresAeroengine componentsPrecision castingsEngine repair and overhaulSmall satellite busesSpacecraft avionicsSounding rockets

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