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 Formerly owned DHC-3 Otter at Pauingassi, Manitoba | |||||||
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| Founded | 1962 | ||||||
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| AOC # | 1568 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Rural Municipality of St. Andrews | ||||||
| Hubs | St. Andrews Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 9 | ||||||
| Destinations | 14 | ||||||
| Website | http://www.northwayav.com | ||||||
Northway Aviation Ltd is a Canadian bush airline providing scheduled and charter passenger and freight service from St. Andrews Airport, St Andrews, Manitoba, Canada utilizing both wheel and float equipped aircraft.
The 22-minute Canadian documentary film, Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth, made in 1980 by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and directed by Norma Bailey and Robert Lower, is about the early days of Northway Aviation and Canadian bush flying.
History
Northway Aviation was established and started charter operations in 1962, and is owned and operated by the Johnson family. Northway once operated out of Arnes (wheels and skis) and Willow Island (floats). The floatplanes eventually moved to the Icelandic River in Riverton. Operations out of Winnipeg began in the 1980s and relocated to St. Andrews and Pine Dock in the 1990s.
Destinations
Northway Aviation provides scheduled services to thirteen First Nations communities in Manitoba and Ontario and charter services throughout North America:
- Manitoba
- Berens River First Nation (Berens River Airport)
- Bloodvein First Nation (Bloodvein River Airport)
- Garden Hill First Nation (Island Lake Airport)
- Gods Lake Narrows (Gods Lake Narrows Airport)
- Manto Sipi Cree Nation (God's River) (Gods Lake Airport)
- Little Grand Rapids First Nation (Little Grand Rapids Airport)
- Oxford House (Oxford House Airport)
- Pauingassi First Nation (Little Grand Rapids Airport)
- Red Sucker Lake First Nation (Red Sucker Lake Airport)
- Rural Municipality of St. Andrews (St. Andrews Airport)
- St. Theresa Point First Nation (St. Theresa Point Airport)
- Ontario
Fleet
Northway Aviation operates a small fleet of Cessna Caravan 208s and Grand Caravans. In 2015, Northway Aviation purchased a Pilatus PC12-47 EFIS single engine turboprop. Two more PC-12s have been added to the fleet since then.
| Aircraft | No. of aircraft |
Variants | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cessna 208 Caravan | 6 | 2 208 Caravan, 4 208B Grand Caravan | |
| Pilatus PC-12 | 3 | PC-12NG |
Previously flown aircraft are:
- Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander
- Cessna 180
- Cessna 185
- Cessna 207
- Cessna Grand Caravan
- DHC-2 Beaver
- DHC-3 Otter
- GippsAero GA8 Airvan
- Noorduyn Norseman
- Pilatus PC-12
- Piper PA-31
Notes
- Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: History Search Result
- ^ "ICAO Designators for Canadian Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services" (PDF). Nav Canada. 2023-05-04. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
Northway Aviation: NAL, NORTHWAY
- Transport Canada (2019-09-02), Civil Aviation Services (CAS) AOC. wwwapps.tc.gc.ca.
- ^ "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: Quick Search Result for Northway Aviation". Transport Canada. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
- ^ Flight Schedule
- "'Bush Pilot' released". Stonewall, Argus and Teulon Times. January 21, 1981. p. 8. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ "About Us". Archived from the original on April 4, 2016.
- ^ Our fleet
- Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: History Search Result
