Air Nunavut

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Air Nunavut
Air Nunavut logo.png
Dassault Falcon 10, Air Nunavut AN0165841.jpg
A Dassault Falcon 10 departing Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport
IATA ICAO Callsign
N/A BFF[1] BAFFIN
Founded1989
AOC #Canada: 5343[2]
United States: Q1NF069F[3]
HubsIqaluit Airport
Oshawa Executive Airport
Fleet size14[4]
DestinationsAir charter/MEDEVAC
HeadquartersIqaluit, Nunavut and
Oshawa, Ontario[5]
Key peopleJeff Mahoney (president)
WebsiteAir Nunavut / SmoothAir Charter

Air Nunavut, trading as Smooth Air,[2] is an airline based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It is the only local and Inuit-owned[6][7] air carrier in the eastern Arctic, operating MEDEVAC and charter services throughout Canada's Arctic, northern Quebec and Greenland. Its main base is Iqaluit Airport.[8]

History[]

The airline was established and started charter operations in 1989 as Air Baffin. Scheduled services were inaugurated in May 1992.[8]

The airline also has two main bases of operations, Oshawa Executive Airport and Iqaluit Airport.

Three Falcon 10s operate out of the Oshawa Executive Airport under the division company name "SmoothAir Charter."[8] The Beechcraft King Air 200s remain in Iqaluit servicing the surrounding communities.

Fleet[]

According to Transport Canada the Air Nunavut fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of January 2022):[4]

Air Nunavut fleet
Aircraft No. of aircraft Variants Notes
Beechcraft Super King Air 4 200 8, 11 or 13 passengers, gravel strip capable.
Dassault Falcon 10 7 Falcon 10 Listed by Air Nunavut as Falcon 10 Jet, 7 passengers, gravel strip capable. One aircraft is listed by Transport Canada as having an expired temporary registration certificate.[9] Only two listed at the SmoothAir Charter site.[10]
Dassault Falcon 20 3 Mystère/Falcon 20F5, Falcon 200, Fan Jet Falcon Only two listed at the SmoothAir Charter site.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Air Traffic Designators - Transport Canada" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-16. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
  2. ^ a b Transport Canada (2019-09-05), Civil Aviation Services (CAS) AOC. wwwapps.tc.gc.ca.
  3. ^ "Federal Aviation Administration - Airline Certificate Information - Detail View". av-info.faa.gov. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  4. ^ a b "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: Quick Search Result for Air Nunavut". Transport Canada. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  5. ^ "Air Nunavut Contact". Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  6. ^ To be registered with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated as an Inuit firm Article 24 of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement requires that the owner, or 51% ownership of the companies shares, be Inuit. Full details at Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Archived 2009-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Firm Details for - Air Nunavut
  8. ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 64.
  9. ^ "CCAR - Aircraft Details C-GNVT". Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  10. ^ a b Fleet

External links[]

Air Nunavut / SmoothAir Charter

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