Canadian jetmaker Bombardier is pouring $270 million into U.S. facilities and hundreds of new American jobs, a move President Trump is holding up as proof his pressure works.
Bombardier said Friday it is expanding across the United States and hiring for hundreds of positions in Kansas, Texas, Indiana, and Connecticut after constructive talks with the Trump administration. The company framed the push as a major vote of confidence in the American market and its U.S. workforce.
FOX Business reported that the announcement followed earlier comments from President Donald Trump that the Canadian firm should no longer be allowed to sell its planes in the United States unless it manufactures them domestically. Trump then publicly celebrated the new investment.
The company’s press release, obtained by FOX Business, laid out a clear expansion plan. Bombardier described an initial investment phase estimated at $270 million earmarked for infrastructure growth, paired with a nationwide hiring drive.
Bombardier said it is expanding its presence across the country and hiring 800 people for jobs based in its Kansas home base as well as Texas, Indiana, and Connecticut. The firm is actively recruiting for 500 positions now and plans to create an additional 300 jobs through footprint expansion projects.
Texas is set up as the next major pillar. The company said the state will account for 150 of those 300 new expansion jobs. Hiring will also continue at the Kansas base and in Indiana and Connecticut.
In a statement, Bombardier president and CEO Eric Martel tied the push directly to confidence in American workers and the market:
"Our American service network is a key pillar of Bombardier’s growth strategy. This new wave of expansion and hiring reflects our long-term confidence in this market and our employees in America,"
Martel went further on the talks with Washington:
"Based on our constructive conversations with the U.S. administration, we see a bright path forward for our highly skilled aerospace workers as well as a positive environment for Bombardier to continue pursuing direct investments to grow our American footprint,"
The company is not only adding headcount. It is building out service capacity. Bombardier’s newest American service facility at Fort Wayne International Airport in Fort Wayne, Indiana, runs about 64,500 square feet. The site can handle up to six aircraft and will offer scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, modifications, avionics installations, and aircraft-on-ground support.
New footprint expansion projects are also planned for Dallas, Texas, and Connecticut. Last week the company inaugurated a North American Learning Center meant to develop talent and support long-term growth of its Kansas operations. Bombardier said the center reinforces its commitment to building capabilities in Wichita.
The firm already has a sizable U.S. footprint. In 2025, Bombardier said its American activities supported 27,200 jobs across service and manufacturing facilities and a broad supply chain, where the company spent $2.8 billion.
Trump highlighted the investment late Thursday on Truth Social. He praised Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas for his work on behalf of the state and cast the Bombardier move as part of a larger pattern of companies putting capital and jobs into the United States.
"Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas has done an incredible job in representing his Great State!"
Trump added:
"Companies are coming to America, investing BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and creating JOBS like never before."
That praise landed against the backdrop of Trump’s earlier September message that Bombardier should manufacture in the United States if it wants to keep selling planes here. The company has now answered with concrete dollars, recruiting targets, and new facilities in multiple states.
No formal ban, tariff schedule, or Customs order is described in the available reporting. What is clear is the sequence: public pressure on domestic manufacturing, company talks with the administration, then a $270 million infrastructure phase and hundreds of U.S. hires announced in short order.
For workers in Wichita, Fort Wayne, Dallas, and Connecticut, the practical result is openings, training capacity, and expanded service work. For taxpayers watching industrial policy, the episode shows a foreign jetmaker choosing to deepen its American presence after the White House made U.S. production a condition of market access.
When a Canadian manufacturer answers a straight demand to build and hire here with real money and real jobs, that is leverage working the way voters expect.
