specialized aviation founded 2000 headquarters montreal quebec canada key people paul bouchard president slogan experience matters website www.discoveryair ds.com discovery air defence is a montreal quebec based defence contractor that offers contracted airborne training services to the canadian armed forces through the contracted airborne training services cats program . discovery air defence operates a fleet of modernized fighter aircraft to provide red air threat replication joint terminal attack controller jtac training practice munitions drop air to air gunnery training and naval target tow profiles for the canadian u.s. and german militaries . 1 it also provides electronic warfare training and tactics development and supports advanced radar trials in nationally controlled environments . 2 canadian armed forces personnel are authorized to fly on board discovery air defence fighter aircraft . 3 alpha jet line up in top aces colours contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 references 4 external links history edit discovery air defence was founded in 2000 by three former royal canadian air force cf 18 fighter pilots . in 2005 discovery air defence signed a 94 million contract with the canadian armed forces to supply contracted combat support and adversary training . 4 in 2014 the company signed a contract to provide fast jet airborne training services to the german armed forces for five years . 5 fleet edit discovery air defence operates the largest privately owned operational fighter plane fleet in the world . discovery air defence aircraft do not have any rcaf markings and are not included in the rcaf aircraft inventory . some alpha jets retained the german air force paint schemes but a few have been repainted in desert or northern camouflage . the fleet consists of discovery air defence active fleet aircraft no . of aircraft variants notes alpha jet 16 model a douglas a 4 skyhawk 7 a 4n douglas a 4 skyhawk 2 ta 4j iai westwind 2 1124 listed by transport canada as the israel 1124 references edit exhibitor profile for discovery air inc. about us rcaf spring edition 2015 history discovery air deploys a 4n jets to germany ahead of training contract external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to discovery air defence . official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title discovery air defence & oldid 705833621 categories defence companies of canada2000 establishments in quebeccompanies based in montrealcompanies established in 2000hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category with local link same as on wikidata 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 19 february 2016 at 20 47 . 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