Air Nunavut

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Air Nunavut
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IATA ICAO Callsign
N/ABFF [1] AIR BAFFIN [1]
Founded1989
AOC # Canada: 5343 [2]
United States: Q1NF069F [3]
Hubs Iqaluit Airport
Oshawa Executive Airport
Fleet size14 [4]
Destinations Air charter/MEDEVAC
Headquarters Iqaluit, Nunavut and
Oshawa, Ontario [5]
Key peopleJeff Mahoney (president)
Website Air Nunavut / SmoothAir Charter

Air Nunavut, trading as Smooth Air, [2] is an airline based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It is the only local and Inuit-owned [6] [7] air carrier in the eastern Arctic operating charter services throughout Canada's Arctic, northern Quebec and Greenland. Its main base is Iqaluit Airport. [8]

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History

The airline was established and started charter operations in 1989 as Air Baffin. Scheduled services were inaugurated in May 1992. [8]

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. [9] 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): [4]

Air Nunavut fleet
AircraftNo. of aircraftVariantsNotes
Beechcraft Super King Air 4 200 8, 11 or 13 passengers, gravel strip capable.
Dassault Falcon 10 7 Falcon 10 Listed 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. [10] Only two listed at the SmoothAir Charter site. [9]
Dassault Falcon 20 3 Mystère/Falcon 20F5, Falcon 200, Fan Jet Falcon Only two listed at the SmoothAir Charter site. [9]

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References

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