Air Mikisew
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| Air Mikisew | ||
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| IATA V8 | ICAO N/A |
Callsign Aurora |
| Founded | 1961 (as Contact Air) | <tr><th colspan="2">Hubs</th><td>Fort McMurray Airport</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Focus cities / secondary hubs</th><td>Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport|
| Fleet size | 10 | |
| Destinations | 3 | |
| 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.
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[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) <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref> :
- 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.
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