Air Mikisew

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Air Mikisew
IATA V8	ICAO N/A	Callsign Aurora
Founded		1961 (as Contact Air)
Hubs		Fort McMurray Airport
Focus cities		Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport Fort Chipewyan Airport
Fleet size		10
Destinations		3
Parent company		Air Mikisew Ltd.
Headquarters		Fort McMurray, Alberta
Key people		Graham Davis (Operations Manager), Steve Webster (Chief Pilot)
Website: http://www.airmikisew.com

Air Mikisew is an airline based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. It operates scheduled passenger services in the Fort McMurray/Fort Chipewyan region. It was awarded the Fort McMurray Business of the Year award in 2005.

Contents 1 History 2 Fleet 3 External link 4 References

[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in 1961 as Contact Air and became wholly owned by the Mikisew Cree First Nation in 1995 - mikisew is the Cree word for eagle. Air Mikisew provides scheduled flights between Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, and Edmonton. (Schedule). It also provides aero-medical flights for the Municipality of Wood Buffalo area and charter flights throughout western Canada.

[edit] Fleet

The Air Mikisew fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) ^[1] :

• 2 BAe Jetstream 31 (one Executive and one Commuter configuration)
• 1 Raytheon Beech B99

Other aircraft:

• 1 Cessna 208 Caravan (Amphibious in the summer)
• 1 Raytheon Beech King Air B200 Medevac
• 2 Piper PA-31 Navajos
• 1 Cessna 207
• 1 Cessna 206
• 1 Cessna 185 on floats.

[edit] External link

• Air Mikisew

[edit] References

1. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006