Air North
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| IATA code : | 4N |
| ICAO code : | ANT |
| Call sign : | AIR NORTH |
| Founding: | 1977 |
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Whitehorse , Canada
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| Home airport : | Whitehorse Airport |
| IATA prefix code : | 287 |
| Management: | Joseph Sparling |
| Number of employees: | 180 |
| Alliance : | First Air |
| Fleet size: | 10 |
| Aims: | national |
| Website: | www.flyairnorth.com |
Air North Charter and Training Ltd. (operated as Air North, Yukon's Airline ) is a Canadian airline based in Whitehorse , Yukon . It operates a network of routes within the Yukon and between the Yukon, the Northwest Territories , British Columbia, Alberta and seasonally Alaska.
history
The airline was founded in 1977 by Joseph Sparling and Tom Wood and took up flight operations in the same year as a charter company for the mining companies with a Cessna 206. In the next few decades, aircraft of the type Douglas DC-3 , Beechcraft Model 18 , Douglas DC-4 and some Cessna 172 , deHavilland Beaver, Otter and Caribou and Britten-Norman Islander followed.
Scheduled flights within the Yukon and from Yukon to Alaska followed in the mid-1980s. 1996 began the conversion of aircraft with piston engines to types with turboprop engines.
In 2002 Air North received two Boeing 737-200s and expanded the route network from Yukon to Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. Today the fleet consists of Boeing 737 and Hawker Siddeley 748 .
Air North is owned by Joseph Sparling (51%) (Chairman of the airline) and Vuntut Development (49% owned by Indians from the tribe of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation ). Air North has 180 employees (as of March 2007).
aims
Air North flies scheduled and charter flights to national destinations within Canada. From the main airport, Whitehorse Airport , the Hawker Siddeley 748 serves the destinations Dawson City , Old Crow and Inuvik . Seasonal flights to Fairbanks , Alaska are also available from Dawson City and Old Crow . The three Boeing 737s connect Whitehorse with the major cities of Vancouver / British Columbia , Edmonton and Calgary / Alberta . A code share agreement with Condor has existed since June 2011 . This provides a connection for Condor passengers from Frankfurt to Vancouver, Calgary, Whitehorse and Edmonton in Canada.
fleet
Current fleet
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As of May 2020, the Air North fleet consists of nine aircraft with an average age of 28.5 years (excluding the Hawker Siddeley 748 ):
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| ATR 42-300 | 3 | 42 | ||
| Boeing 737-400 | 1 | 156 | ||
| Boeing 737-500 | 4th | 122 | ||
| Hawker Siddeley 748 | 2 | Seats depend on cargo configuration | 2-40 | |
| total | 10 | - |
Former aircraft types
Air North has already used the following types of aircraft in the past:
- Boeing 737-200
- Cessna 150
- Cessna 172
- Cessna 185
- Cessna 206
- Cessna 337
- Britten Norman Islander
- Beechcraft 18
- Beechcraft 80
- De Havilland Beaver
- De Havilland Otter
- De Havilland Caribou
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
Incidents
Air North recorded three serious incidents in its history, two of which were fatal:
- On June 24, 1983, the engine of a Douglas DC-3 ( registration number N95460) started to burn while in flight . The plane made an emergency landing at Metro Field, Fairbanks . No one was harmed, but the plane had to be written off.
- On August 19, 1995, a Douglas DC-3 (registration number C-GZOF) had an accident after it had to return to Vancouver Airport after take-off due to an engine failure. One of three people on board the aircraft was killed in an accident.
- On August 14, 1996, another Douglas DC-3 (registration number C-FGNI) had an accident after another engine started to burn during the flight. Of the three people on board, the flight captain had a fatal accident.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A b Air North Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. March 24, 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Air North: Our Fleet. In: flyairnorth.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Air North Experience | Corporate Information ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Data on the airline Air North in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on May 10, 2016.
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
