Kivalliq Air

Kivalliq Air
	A Beech 200 at Cambridge Bay Airport
Founded	1998
Operating bases	Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport
Secondary hubs	Churchill Airport, Rankin Inlet Airport
Fleet size	14 [1]
Destinations	2 [2]
Parent company	Keewatin Air
Headquarters	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Website	http://www.kivalliqair.com

Last updated August 22, 2019

Kivalliq Air is an airline based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.^[3] It operates scheduled service three days per week between Sanikiluaq and Winnipeg. Its main base is at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, with bases, hangars and maintenance facilities at Rankin Inlet Airport and Churchill Airport.

An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines utilize aircraft to supply these services, and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body.

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. Centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, it is near the longitudinal centre of North America, approximately 110 kilometres (70 mi) north of the Canada–United States border.

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History

Kivalliq Air, the scheduled airline division of Keewatin Air, began operations in December 1999.

Keewatin Air is an airline that operates from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. The airline was started by Frank Robert May and his wife Judy Saxby in 1971, in the Keewatin Region, then part of the Northwest Territories.

Destinations

As of February 2012, Kivalliq Air operates scheduled domestic services to the following destinations:^[2]

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Sanikiluaq is a municipality and Inuit community located on the north coast of Flaherty Island in Hudson Bay, on the Belcher Islands, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. As of the 2016 census the population was 882, an 8.6% increase over the 2011 census.

Fleet

As of February 2012 the aircraft registered with Transport Canada by Kivalliq Air (Keewatin Air) includes:^[1]

Transport Canada is the department within the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio. The current Minister of Transport is Marc Garneau. Transport Canada is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

**Kivalliq (Keewatin Air) Fleet**
Aircraft	No. of Aircraft	Variants	Idents	Notes
Beechcraft 1900	2	1900C	FJXL, FJXO	Scheduled flights,^[4] air charter ^[5]
Beechcraft Super King Air	8	King Air 200/B200	FCGT, FRMV, FSKN, FSKO, FSKX, FZPW, GYGT, GYSR	Scheduled flights,^[4] MEDIVAC (air ambulance as Nunavut Lifeline),^[6] air charter ^[5]
Beechcraft Model 18	1	3NM	FBCF
Bombardier Learjet 35	2	35A	GDJH, GYFB	MEDIVAC (air ambulance as Nunavut Lifeline)^[6]
Pilatus PC-12	1	PC-12/45	GFLA	MEDIVAC (air ambulance as Nunavut Lifeline)^[6] air charter ^[5]

Accidents and incidents

On December 22, 2012, a Fairchild Metro 3/23 twin-engine turboprop aircraft belonging to Perimeter Aviation but chartered by Kivalliq Air crashed near the end of the runway at Sanikiluaq Airport in northern Canada, killing a 6-month-old baby and injuring the 8 other people on board. The cause was not immediately known.^[7]

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References

1 2 Transport Canada listing of aircraft owned by Keewatin Air Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
1 2 Kivalliq Air Schedule Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Contact Keewatin Air. Kivalliq Air. Retrieved on February 8, 2010. "Keewatin Air LP - Executive Offices 1 Allen Dyne Road Winnipeg, MB"
1 2 Passenger Travel
1 2 3 Charters Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
1 2 3 Nunavut Lifeline - Medical Program Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Chartered plane crashes in northern Canada, killing baby". BNO News. 23 December 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2012.

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[fleet-1] 1 2 Transport Canada listing of aircraft owned by Keewatin Air Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine

[sked-2] 1 2 Kivalliq Air Schedule Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Contact Keewatin Air. Kivalliq Air. Retrieved on February 8, 2010. "Keewatin Air LP - Executive Offices 1 Allen Dyne Road Winnipeg, MB"

[pax-4] 1 2 Passenger Travel

[charter-5] 1 2 3 Charters Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

[medi-6] 1 2 3 Nunavut Lifeline - Medical Program Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

[BNONews2012-7] "Chartered plane crashes in northern Canada, killing baby". BNO News. 23 December 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2012.

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