 The much smaller Viking Aircraft started off as a component manufacturing specialist, which came to include the licensed production of parts of several of Bombardier's discontinued aircraft range, helping operators to keep them in service.During 2008, Bombardier and Viking Air reached an arrangement under which the former sold the design documents and all intellectual property rights of its earlier bush planes to Viking.On 20 June 2016, it was announced that Viking Air was in the process of purchasing the CL-415 type certificate from Bombardier, along with the older CL-215 and CL-215T models.