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Air Inuit

IATA 3H^[1]	ICAO AIE^[2]	Callsign INUIT

Founded

November, 1978

Hubs

Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport

Secondary hubs

Kuujjuaq Airport, La Grande Rivière Airport

Frequent-flyer program

Air Inuit Reward Program

Fleet size

26^[3]

Destinations

21^[4]

Company slogan

Let us take you there...

Parent company

Makivik Corporation

Headquarters

Dorval, Quebec

Key people

Peter Horsman (President, Air Inuit)

Website

http://www.airinuit.com/

One of Air Inuit's two Boeing 737-200s, at Val-d'Or Airport.

A DeHavilland DHC-8-102 belonging to Air Inuit at Cornwall, Ontario, May 2005

Air Inuit Ltd is an airline based in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.^[5] It operates domestic passenger services and charter and cargo services in Nunavik and Nunavut. Its main base is Kuujjuaq Airport.^[6]

Contents

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 Accidents and incidents
5 References
6 External links

History

^{[citation needed]}

The airline was established and started operations in 1978 using a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver aircraft. The airline is collectively owned by the Inuit of Nunavik through the Makivik Corporation.^[7]

Destinations

Air Inuit operates scheduled services to the following domestic destinations (November 2006):^{[citation needed]}

Newfoundland and Labrador
- Wabush (Wabush Airport)

Nunavut
- Sanikiluaq (Sanikiluaq Airport)

Quebec

Air Inuit also offers Charter services to anywhere in Canada, the United States and abroad.

Fleet

The Air Inuit fleet includes the following aircraft (as of January 2012)^[3]

**Air Inuit Fleet**
Aircraft	Number^[3]	Variants	Notes^[8]
DHC6 Twin Otter	7	300 Series	19 seats maximum, 3,200 lbs cargo
Avro 748	2	2A Series	1 Combi aircraft and 1 HS748 LFD Freighter
Boeing 737	2	200 Series	Combi aircraft, 115 seats maximum. This two combi aircraft are also able to operate gravel airstrips.
Dash 8-100	4	100 Series	37 seat maximum, 7,500 lbs cargo
Dash 8-300	6	300 Series	50 seats maximum
King Air	3	100 Series	9 seats, 2,300 lbs cargo

Air Inuit also has access to a Eurocopter Ecureuil (Aerospatiale ASTAR 350) through Nunavik Rotors.^[9]

Accidents and incidents

On 16 March 1981, Douglas C-47A C-FIRW was damaged beyond repair when it broke through the frozen surface of Lac Bienville while taxiing for take-off on a cargo flight.^[10]

References

^ Airline Codes
^ Transport Canada - Air Traffic Designators - TP 143 (PDF)
^ ^a ^b ^c Transport Canada listing of aircraft owned by "Air Inuit" (enter Air Inuit in the box titled "Owner Name")
^ Air Inuit route map
^ "Contact us." Air Inuit. Retrieved on October 8, 2009. "547 Meloche Dorval (Quebec) Canada H9P 2W2 "
^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 58. 2007-03-27.
^ http://www.airinuit.com/en/History.aspx Air Inuit's history
^ Air Inuit fleet
^ Air Inuit (2005). "Our Fleet". Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20080612222003/http://www.airinuit.com/en/about/fleet.php. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
^ "C-FIRW Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19810316-0. Retrieved 24 July 2010.

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