Air Tindi

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airline=Air Tindi
logo=AirTindi.gif
logo_size=150
fleet_size=19
destinations= 6
IATA=8T
ICAO=-
callsign=-
parent=Air Tindi Ltd.
founded=1988
headquarters=Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
key_people=Alex Arychuck (CEO), X (CFO)
hubs=Yellowknife Int'l Airport
Fort Simpson Airport
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frequent_flyer=
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website= http://www.airtindi.com

Air Tindi is an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It operates scheduled and on demand charter services. Its main base is Yellowknife Airport and the airline is wholly owned by the Arychuk familycite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 67 | date= 2007-03-27] . The name Tindi means "the big lake" or "Great Slave Lake", in the local native Dogrib language.

History

Air Tindi was established and began operations on 1 November 1988 with four float/ski aircraft. In 1990 it purchased its first De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter with the help of the Rae-Edzo Development Corporation, allowing the airline to expand and provide more services to the growing mining exploration industry. In 1991 Air Tindi merged with Latham Island Airways and acquired a further four aircraft in the process. By mid 1992 Air Tindi was operating four Twin Otters on floats. In 1993 their first large aircraft, a DHC 4 Caribou for re-supply work with the mining industry, was purchased. A DHC Dash 7 was acquired in 1996. On December 19, 2006, Air Tindi Ltd. was acquired by Discovery Air Inc. (TSX: DA.A), a publicly traded holding company based in London, Ontario, Canada. Fact|date=April 2007

Destinations

Air Tindi operates services (subject to traffic demand) to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Fort Simpson, Lutselk'e, Rae Lakes, Snare Lake, Whatì, Ekati and various mines, and Yellowknife.

Fleet

The Air Tindi fleet includes the following aircraft (as of March 2007) :

*6 De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
*1 De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 200
*3 Bombardier Dash 7 Series 100
*1 Raytheon Beech B99
*4 Raytheon Beech King Air 200
*2 Cessna Caravan 675
*1 Cessna 208 Caravan

Other aircraft: Fact|date=April 2007
*2 Cessna 185s
*1 Cessna Citation II
*1 De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter

External links

* [http://www.airtindi.com/ Air Tindi]

References