Stelia North America is an Airbus Atlantic company designing, developing and manufacturing advanced composite structures for aerospace, defence and space programs from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and Mirabel, Quebec.
Operating context
Stelia North America is an Airbus Atlantic company providing composite design, engineering and manufacturing from a 150,000 sq ft Lunenburg headquarters and a 32,000 sq ft Mirabel composites facility. Its current website identifies both sites within this business and dates the Mirabel opening to 2009. Customer-specific work spans aircraft structures and systems, satellite structures and reflectors, and composite pressure vessels. Site-specific process capability, certification and component responsibilities should be confirmed for each work package.
Canadian footprint
Stelia North America identifies two Canadian composites sites: a 150,000 sq ft headquarters and manufacturing facility in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and a 32,000 sq ft engineering and manufacturing facility in Mirabel, Quebec.
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is the published city-level context for Stelia North America. It does not imply a street address or exact facility location.
Stelia North America provides design/build and build-to-print composite engineering and manufacturing from Lunenburg and a separate Mirabel composites site. Processes include prepreg and dry-fabric lay-up, resin-transfer moulding, wet filament winding, autoclave and out-of-autoclave curing, and five-axis trim/drill tooling. Its current portfolio identifies F-35 inserts and fuselage panels, C-130J saddle fairings, CH-53K oil-cooler ducts, satellite structures and reflectors, and composite pressure vessels. These platform roles are supplier-described and require component-specific scope confirmation.
Evidence of maturity
Established production services with named platform roles described by the supplier. ACOA’s February 2026 investment supports new manufacturing and inspection equipment; it does not establish completed installation or qualification of each component.
Commercial availability
Available through customer-specific engineering and manufacturing contracts. Verify drawing authority, first-article acceptance, production capacity and the current certification scope for the selected site and part.
Core features
Design/build and build-to-print composite manufacturing engineering
Prepreg, dry-fabric/RTM and wet filament-winding processes
Five-axis tooling for trim, drill and profile machining
Process development through prototyping and first-article fabrication
Supplier-listed aircraft, satellite and pressure-vessel component production
ACOA announced more than $600,000 in RDII support for Stelia to install advanced manufacturing and inspection equipment, including CNC machines, a robotic sanding cell, a process oven, measuring equipment and a 3D printer.
ACOA agreement 227555 discloses a CAD 601,370 unconditionally repayable contribution for production-inspection equipment in 2026. This is a disclosed support amount, not evidence of completed installation or added output.
Ecosystem relationships
RDII funding recipient
Government of Canada
ACOA records RDII support for Stelia's advanced composite manufacturing and inspection upgrades to meet global aerospace and defence demand.
Reviewed connections
Mission area · Reviewed connectionEvidence strength: Moderate
Advanced composite design and manufacturing could support airframe and payload-structure production for autonomous aerial systems; the mission link is derived and not a claim about a specific program.
Reviewed connections indicate possible relevance based on public evidence. They do not indicate procurement direction, eligibility, endorsement or customer interest.
Questions for a first conversation
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Which equipment has entered production, and which customer qualifications cover parts produced on the upgraded line?
The official website combines Lunenburg and Mirabel language; retain the exact published Lunenburg scope. Funding does not prove installation or production capacity.
Original sources 7 linked records
These records support the organization, its owned capabilities and their reviewed connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Stelia states its Mirabel composites production facility opened in 2009 and currently totals 32,000 sq ft alongside 150,000 sq ft in Lunenburg. This contradicts the existing dossier blanket exclusion of Mirabel and should be corrected without conflating separate Airbus Atlantic entities.
Supports: Profile · canadian footprint
Stelia states its Mirabel composites production facility opened in 2009 and currently totals 32,000 sq ft alongside 150,000 sq ft in Lunenburg. This contradicts the existing dossier blanket exclusion of Mirabel and should be corrected without conflating separate Airbus Atlantic entities.
STELIA North America describes automated fibre placement, filament winding, tooling, assembly and nondestructive inspection for composite structures. Its website lists the Lunenburg address and telephone 902-634-8448. The website also mentions Mirabel, which the exact published record excludes as a separate operation.
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency supports 2026-02-20 as the material date used for this dossier activity note.
Supports: Profile · profileData.currentActivity
ACOA announced more than $600,000 in RDII support for Stelia to install advanced manufacturing and inspection equipment, including CNC machines, a robotic sanding cell, a process oven, measuring equipment and a 3D printer.
ACOA records CAD 601,370 in unconditionally repayable contribution support to STELIA Aerospace North America for production-infrastructure modernization, covering January 16 to July 31 2026.
True North Map derives this first-conversation question from the documented Stelia North America capability, current evidence and the decision gap that remains.
Supports: Profile · operating context
Stelia North America currently identifies a 150,000 sq ft Lunenburg headquarters and a 32,000 sq ft Mirabel engineering/manufacturing site; the website explicitly describes two Canadian sites and Airbus Atlantic ownership.
STELIA North America describes automated fibre placement, filament winding, tooling, assembly and nondestructive inspection for composite structures. Its website lists the Lunenburg address and telephone 902-634-8448. The website also mentions Mirabel, which the exact published record excludes as a separate operation.
STELIA North America describes automated fibre placement, filament winding, tooling, assembly and nondestructive inspection for composite structures. Its website lists the Lunenburg address and telephone 902-634-8448. The website also mentions Mirabel, which the exact published record excludes as a separate operation.
STELIA North America describes automated fibre placement, filament winding, tooling, assembly and nondestructive inspection for composite structures. Its website lists the Lunenburg address and telephone 902-634-8448. The website also mentions Mirabel, which the exact published record excludes as a separate operation.
Stelia North America's public evidence establishes its current role and offering, but it does not answer every access, configuration, eligibility, maturity or buyer question needed for a first business-development conversation.
Supports: Profile · canadian footprint
Stelia North America currently identifies a 150,000 sq ft Lunenburg headquarters and a 32,000 sq ft Mirabel engineering/manufacturing site; the website explicitly describes two Canadian sites and Airbus Atlantic ownership.
Supports: Profile · description
Stelia North America is an Airbus Atlantic company designing, developing and manufacturing advanced composite structures for aerospace, defence and space programs from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and Mirabel, Quebec.
Supports: Profile · editorial profile version
Stelia North America has sufficient mapped public evidence for private reviewer consideration of the shared editorial profile template.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures · summary
Stelia North America designs and manufactures advanced composite structures using automated fibre placement, filament winding, hand lay-up, resin-transfer processes, tooling, assembly and non-destructive inspection.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures · commercial availability
Stelia North America currently identifies a 150,000 sq ft Lunenburg headquarters and a 32,000 sq ft Mirabel engineering/manufacturing site; the website explicitly describes two Canadian sites and Airbus Atlantic ownership.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures · summary
Stelia North America currently identifies a 150,000 sq ft Lunenburg headquarters and a 32,000 sq ft Mirabel engineering/manufacturing site; the website explicitly describes two Canadian sites and Airbus Atlantic ownership.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures → Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Advanced composite design and manufacturing could support airframe and payload-structure production for autonomous aerial systems; the mission link is derived and not a claim about a specific program.
Supports: Profile · operating context
ACOA records RDII support for Stelia's advanced composite manufacturing and inspection upgrades to meet global aerospace and defence demand.
Supports: Profile · current activity
ACOA announced more than $600,000 in RDII support for Stelia to install advanced manufacturing and inspection equipment, including CNC machines, a robotic sanding cell, a process oven, measuring equipment and a 3D printer.
Supports: Profile · current activity
ACOA announced more than $600,000 in RDII support for Stelia to install advanced manufacturing and inspection equipment, including CNC machines, a robotic sanding cell, a process oven, measuring equipment and a 3D printer.
Supports: RDII funding recipient relationship
Source location: relationships.0.publicSummary
ACOA records RDII support for Stelia's advanced composite manufacturing and inspection upgrades to meet global aerospace and defence demand.
Stelia lists F-35 weapon-bay inserts and fuselage panels, C-130J saddle fairings, CH-53K oil-cooler duct assemblies/shims, AW101 sponsons, satellite structural panels and reflectors, composite pressure vessels with ARDE, and SLS ducts supporting Artemis I/II. These are supplier-described product roles.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures · core features
Stelia lists F-35 weapon-bay inserts and fuselage panels, C-130J saddle fairings, CH-53K oil-cooler duct assemblies/shims, AW101 sponsons, satellite structural panels and reflectors, composite pressure vessels with ARDE, and SLS ducts supporting Artemis I/II. These are supplier-described product roles.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures · maturity
Stelia lists F-35 weapon-bay inserts and fuselage panels, C-130J saddle fairings, CH-53K oil-cooler duct assemblies/shims, AW101 sponsons, satellite structural panels and reflectors, composite pressure vessels with ARDE, and SLS ducts supporting Artemis I/II. These are supplier-described product roles.
Supports: Advanced aerospace and defence composite structures · maturity
ACOA February 20, 2026 announces more than C$600,000 RDII support for Stelia manufacturing/inspection upgrades: CNC machines, robotic sanding, a process oven, metrology and 3D printing; expected job creation and capacity are project objectives.
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