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Bradley Air Services, operating as Canadian North, is a wholly Inuit-owned airline [6] headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, [7] Canada. It operates scheduled passenger services to communities in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Nunavik region of Quebec, as well as southern destinations such as Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa. [8]
The Canadair North Star is a 1940s Canadian development, for Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), of the Douglas DC-4. [1] Instead of radial piston engines used by the Douglas design, Canadair used Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engines to achieve a higher cruising speed of 325 mph (523 km/h) [ 2 ] compared with the 246 mph (396 km/h) of the standard DC-4.
North Star Air fleet Aircraft Number TC list Number North Star list Variants Notes ATR 72: 4: 5: ATR 72-212A (ATR 72-500) Based at Thompson, freight only [8] De Havilland Canada Dash 8 — 2: Series 100: Combi aircraft, based at Thunder Bay, up to 39 passengers [9] Douglas DC-3: 3: 3: Basler BT-67: Based at Kapuskasing, Pickle Lake, Red Lake ...
Expanding very rapidly, Nolinor needed more space for its Convair 580 fleet and in 2005 the company moved its maintenance facilities to Mirabel International Airport. The new hangar provides more than 9,300 m 2 (100,000 sq ft) and is able to accommodate aircraft like the Boeing 747-200, 777-300, 767, Airbus A310, and A320.
The Canadian Forces have leased aircraft from vendors to help transport troops and equipment from Canada and other locations in the past decade. Transport aircraft have been leased as required. Despite RCAF marking all aircraft have civilian registration numbers. Beechcraft B300 Super King Air. Two aircraft leased from Transwest Air Limited.
After the introduction of the operationally and logistically more economical Boeing 767-223SF in March 2010, First Air retired and removed its two Boeing 727-233 aircraft from its fleet. One was one of only two combi types in the world, and the last 727-200 in North America on scheduled passenger-freight services. The other 727-233F full ...
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Name Location Coordinates Notes Presque Isle Army Airfield: ME Chief port of embarkation for U.S. aircraft flying the North Atlantic. Headquarters, 23d AAF Ferrying Wing, Ferrying Command 12 June 1942; re-designated North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, 11 February 1944; Redesignated North Atlantic Division, ATC, 27 June 1944.