This site occupies over 650,000 square feet alongside Mirabel airport, with 17 helipads and two runways. Since 1986, Bell Textron Canada LTD. has had more than 5,000 helicopters roll off its production lines. Today, it holds more than 1,300 employees and the final assembly lines for the entirety of Bell’s in-production commercial product line and conducts customization, engineering, type certification flights, support and services, composite manufacturing and innovation research.