Air Nunavut is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Iqaluit, Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

, Canada

Canada

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. It is the only local and Inuit

Inuit

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-owned air carrier in the eastern Arctic

Arctic

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, operating MEDEVAC

MEDEVAC

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 and charter

Air charter

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 services throughout Canada's Arctic, northern Quebec

Quebec

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 and Greenland

Greenland

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. Its main base is Iqaluit Airport

Iqaluit Airport

Iqaluit Airport serves Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and is located adjacent to the town. It is operated by the government of Nunavut. It hosts scheduled passenger service from Ottawa, Montreal, Rankin Inlet and Kuujjuaq on carriers such as First Air and Canadian North, as well as from smaller...

.

History

The airline was established and started charter operations in 1989 as Air Baffin. Scheduled services were inaugurated in May 1992.

Fleet

According to Transport Canada

Transport Canada

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 the Air Nunavut fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of April 2010) :

Air Nunavut Fleet

Aircraft	No. of Aircraft	Variants	Idents
Dassault Falcon 10 Dassault Falcon 10 |-See also:-References:*...	3		FFEV, FZOP, GNVT
King Air Beechcraft Super King Air The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation . The King Air line comprises a number of model series that fall into two families: the Model 90 series, Model 100 series , Model 200 series and Model 300 series...	3	200 series	FCGW, FZNQ, GZYO

External links

• Air Nunavut at Industry Canada
  Industry Canada
  Industry Canada is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regional economic development, investment, and innovation/research and development. The department employs 6104 FTEs across Canada....
  
  
• Air Nunavut at the PAIL Inuit Business Directory