{"id":820192,"date":"2026-07-23T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820192\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:23:15","slug":"canada-jets-ge-aerospace-magellan-agree-to-work-on-gripen-if-canada-buys-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820192\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada jets: GE Aerospace, Magellan agree to work on Gripen if Canada buys them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 GE Aerospace and Magellan say they\u2019ve signed an agreement on maintenance for the engines of Saab\u2019s Gripen E jets \u2014 on the condition that Ottawa ultimately decides to buy the fighter jets for the Royal Canadian Air Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Magellan is also a key partner in the F-35 Lightning II supply chain in Canada, which makes horizontal tail assemblies in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the second such agreement between two private firms on the prospect of a Gripen order in as many weeks, after Saab declared it is ready to work with the Canadian company CAE on a domestic training, flight simulation and support program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Swedish jet maker \u2014 which was the main rival to the F-35 in Ottawa\u2019s future fighter procurement program \u2014 has said its jets could be built in Canada, with some exported to Ukraine, if the federal government chooses to buy them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s government has been reviewing whether to proceed with its contract to buy a full fleet of 88 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin for more than a year now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The review was ordered after U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war with Canada, and the governing Liberals have not said when they intend to make a final decision on the planes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 GE Aerospace and Magellan say they\u2019ve signed an agreement on maintenance for the engines of Saab\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,1688,47,2882],"class_list":["post-820192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-manufacturing","tag-national","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}