Air Nunavut Explained

Airline:Air Nunavut
Fleet Size:14
Destinations:Air charter/MEDEVAC
Iata:N/A
Icao:BFF
Callsign:AIR BAFFIN
Founded:1989
Aoc:Canada: 5343
Headquarters:Iqaluit, Nunavut and
Oshawa, Ontario[1]
Key People:Jeff Mahoney (president)
Hubs:Iqaluit Airport
Oshawa Executive Airport
Website:Air Nunavut / SmoothAir Charter

Air Nunavut, trading as Smooth Air, is an airline based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It is the only local and Inuit-owned[2] [3] air carrier in the eastern Arctic, operating charter services throughout Canada's Arctic, northern Quebec and Greenland. Its main base is Iqaluit Airport.[4]

History

The airline was established and started charter operations in 1989 as Air Baffin. Scheduled services were inaugurated in May 1992.[4] It was renamed to Air Nunavut in 1996.

The airline also has two main bases of operations, Oshawa Executive Airport and Iqaluit Airport.Under the division company name SmoothAir Charter operate Dassault Falcons out of Oshawa Executive Airport offering charter services.[5] 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 October 2023):

Air Nunavut fleet
AircraftNo. of aircraftVariantsNotes
Beechcraft Super King Air42008, 11 or 13 passengers, gravel strip capable.
Dassault Falcon 107Falcon 10Listed 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.[6] Only two listed at the SmoothAir Charter site.
Dassault Falcon 203Mystère/Falcon 20F5, Falcon 200, Fan Jet FalconOnly two listed at the SmoothAir Charter site.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Air Nunavut Contact . 2014-05-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140508061649/http://www.airnunavut.ca/index.php/form/5-contact.html . 2014-05-08 . dead .
  2. 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
  3. http://inuitfirm.tunngavik.com/inuit-firms/air-nunavut/ Firm Details for - Air Nunavut
  4. News: Directory: World Airlines . . 64 . 2007-03-27.
  5. Web site: Smoothair Charter – A Division of Air Nunavut Ltd.. 2023-10-21.
  6. Web site: CCAR - Aircraft Details C-GNVT. 2022-01-26.