Northway Aviation

Northway Aviation
Formerly owned DHC-3 Otter at Pauingassi, Manitoba[1]
IATA ICAO Call sign
— NAL[2] NORTHWAY[2]
Founded1962
AOC #1568[3]
Operating basesRural Municipality of St. Andrews
HubsSt. Andrews Airport
Fleet size9[4]
Destinations14[5]
Websitehttp://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.[6]

History

Northway Aviation was established and started charter operations in 1962, and is owned and operated by the Johnson family.[7] 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.[7]

Destinations

Northway Aviation provides scheduled services to thirteen First Nations communities in Manitoba and Ontario and charter services throughout North America:[5]

Fleet

Northway Aviation operates a small fleet of Cessna Caravan 208s and Grand Caravans.[4][8] 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.

Northway Aviation fleet
Aircraft No. of
aircraft		 Variants Notes
Cessna 208 Caravan 6 2 208 Caravan, 4 208B Grand Caravan
Pilatus PC-12 3 PC-12NG[8]

Previously flown aircraft are:

Notes

  1. ^ Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: History Search Result
  2. ^ a b "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
  3. ^ Transport Canada (2019-09-02), Civil Aviation Services (CAS) AOC. wwwapps.tc.gc.ca.
  4. ^ a b "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: Quick Search Result for Northway Aviation". Transport Canada. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Flight Schedule
  6. ^ "'Bush Pilot' released". Stonewall, Argus and Teulon Times. January 21, 1981. p. 8. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  7. ^ a b "About Us". Archived from the original on April 4, 2016.
  8. ^ a b Our fleet
  9. ^ Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: History Search Result
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