kf see blue1 . kf aerospace industry aerospace founded kelowna british columbia canada 1970 products aircraft number of employees 1000 subsidiaries kf cargo website kf aerospace kf aerospace formerly kelowna flightcraft is an approved maintenance organization amo which operates two maintenance repair and overhaul mro facilities in canada one in kelowna british columbia and the other in hamilton ontario . kf aerospace also owns kf cargo for cargo charters and aircraft leasing services and also kf defence programs contract operator of the canadian forces contracted flying training and support program . 1 history edit kf defence programs headquarters building under construction at southport aerospace centre c. 2007 . kf defence programs ab initio pilot training is based on the grob 120a trainer . the company was established as kelowna flightcraft on march 20 1970 and the charter subsidiary kelowna flightcraft air charter was established and started operating in june 1974 . it is wholly owned by barry lapointe holding . flightcraft s extensive history in maintenance work directed to the ubiquitous boeing 727 feederliner series has led to their adaptation as the main type for cargo operations with purolator courier their main client . it was announced on february 19 2014 that flightcraft lost their contract with purolator courier as another carrier cargojet won the contract . 2 on march 30 2005 kf aerospace was awarded a 1.77 billion contract to lead a team of canadian companies called kf defence programs to provide primary flight training for the canadian forces air command at southport at the former cfb base portage la prairie manitoba . kf aerospace also undertakes maintenance and upgrades on the convair cv 240 family for which it owns the type certificate . kf aerospace converts existing convair cv 580s to the updated cv5800 configuration and provides conversions of the former canadian forces cc 109 cosmopolitan transport fleet into freighters and fire fighting water chemical bombers . 3 references edit kf defence programs http www.newswire.ca en story 1308267 cargojet awarded purolator and canada post canada post group of companies domestic air cargo network services contract kf aerospace convair external links edit kf aerospace retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kf aerospace & oldid 686042413 categories aerospace companies of canadacompanies based in kelowna navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 october 2015 at 16 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view