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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 767 has since left the fleet. 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 ...
About 16,000 aircraft were manufactured in Canada, including about 450 four-engine Avro Lancaster bombers and 1400 Hawker Hurricane fighters, as well as many training aircraft such as the Harvard, Anson, and Tiger Moth. [33] Aviation manufacturers in Canada included: Canadian Vickers 1923-1944; Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. 1920-1950; Fleet Aircraft ...
Former Canadian Airlines International fleet. [17] Boeing 747-400M: 3 1990 2004 [17] Boeing 767-200: 23 1983 2008 C-GAUN, nicknamed Gimli Glider, was also in service until 2008. [17] Boeing 767-300ER: 44 1988 2020* Replaced by Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 787-9. *Certain aircraft are being reintroduced into the fleet as Boeing 767-300ER/BDSF ...
In response to CNR's creation of TCA, arch-rival Canadian Pacific Railway created Canadian Pacific Air Lines in 1942. Between 1943 and 1947, TCA operated the Canadian Government Trans-Atlantic Air Service (CGTAS) to provide trans-Atlantic military passenger and postal delivery service using Avro Lancastrian (modified Avro Lancaster ) aircraft ...
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 military aircraft represent aircraft flown by Canadians in the First World War, Second World War, and the Cold War. The museum's best known exhibit is the surviving components of the Avro Arrow interceptor from the late 1950s. Also at the museum is Space Shuttle Endeavour ' s Canadarm, the Space Shuttles' Canadian-built robotic arm.
AirSprint is a Canadian company that offers fractional ownership and management of private business jet aircraft. AirSprint was founded in 2000 as the first fractional aircraft ownership company in Canada by current Chairman, Judson Macor. Today, AirSprint operates the youngest fleet of fractional aircraft in North America and is the largest ...