Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd.

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company_name = Kelowna Flightcraft
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foundation = Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada(1970)
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industry = Aerospace
products = Aircraft, trains, trams
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homepage = http://www.flightcraft.ca

Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd. is an Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) which operates two Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities in Canada, one in Kelowna, British Columbia, and the other in Hamilton, Ontario."Directory: World Airlines." "Flight International", 3 April 2007, p. 100.]

Kelowna Flightcraft also owns Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter, a Canada-based charter company, and Allied Wings, contract operator of the Canadian Forces Contracted Flying Training and Support program. [ [http://www.flightcraft.ca/ Flightcraft] ]

History

The company was established on 20 March 1970 and the charter subsidiary was established and started operating in June 1974. It is wholly owned by Barry Lapointe Holding. In 1995, during the tumultous airline industry upheaval in Canada, Kelowna Flightcraft partnered with the short-lived Greyhound Air. [ Grescoe 2004, p. 65.] Flying surplus Boeing 727 airliners, the brief interlude into scheduled "low fare" airline service met with public acceptance but a variety of economic and regulatory factors eventually led to the demise of the partnership. [ Grescoe 2004, p. 65–67.]

Flightcraft's extensive history in maintenance work directed to the ubiquitous Boeing 727 "feederliner" series has led to their adaptation as the main type for cargo operations, with Purolator their main client.

On 30 March 2005, Kelowna Flightcraft was awarded a $1.77 billion contract to lead a team of Canadian companies called Allied Wings provide primary flight training for the Canadian Forces Air Command at Southport at the former CFB Base Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. [ [http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices/5060606-1.html Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd. Announces Canadian Military Flight Training Contract] ] Both fixed wing and rotor craft training will be provided to pilots in training from Canadian Forces, NATO and other clients. A "state-of-the-art" training facility is presently being developed. [ Carr 2006, p. 11.]

Kelowna Flightcraft also undertakes maintenance and upgrades on the Convair CV-240 family, for which it owns the type certificate. Flightcraft converts existing Convair CV-580s to the updated CV5800 configuration and provides conversions of the former Canadian Forces CC-109 Cosmopolitan transport fleet into freighters and "fire-fighting" water/chemical bombers. [ [http://www.flightcraft.ca/convair.asp Flightcraft Convair] ]

References

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Bibliography

* Grescoe, Paul. "Flight Path: How Westjet Is Flying High In Canada's Most Turbulent Industry". Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN 0-470-83436-6.
* Carr, Ken. "Allied Wings." "Western Canada Aviation & Aerospace magazine", Spring-Fall, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.flightcraft.ca Kelowna Flightcraft]
* [http://www.alliedwings.ca Allied Wings]
* [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/ccc/srch/nvgt.do?lang=eng&app=1&prtl=1&sbPrtl=&estblmntNo=123456170908&profile=cmpltPrfl Industry Canada company profile page]