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Adlair Aviation (1983) Ltd.
Founded1983
Commenced operations1984
AOC #3350[1]
HubsCambridge Bay Airport
Secondary hubsYellowknife Airport
Fleet size2[2]
HeadquartersCambridge Bay
Websitehttps://adlair.ca/
Adlair's Learjet 25B
Yellowknife base of Adlair Aviation

Adlair Aviation (1983) Ltd. was founded in 1983 as a family-owned charter airline in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Adlair Aviation was established by one of the north's pilots, Willy Laserich.[3] It has bases in Cambridge Bay and Yellowknife.[4] Also, Adlair operates a docking area at the Cambridge Bay Water Aerodrome.

Services

Adlair Aviation was contracted by the Government of Nunavut to provide MEDEVAC or air ambulance services to the Kitikmeot Region between the territory's creation in 1999 and 2011. It was previously contracted provide the same services for the Northwest Territories.[5] In total, Adlair Aviation completed approximately two thousand medevac flights between its founding in 1983 and 2001.[6]

In August 2011 the Government of Nunavut announced that the medevac contract for the Kitikmeot Region had been given to Air Tindi, along with its partner Arsaniq, owned by Dennis Lyall. Adlair Aviation appealed the decision to the Nunavummi Nangminiqaqtunik Ikajuuti,[7][8] but the appeal was dismissed on October 29, 2011. Adlair Aviation was given an extension on their contract until the end of November 2011.[9]

In December 2012, Adlair Aviation filed a $31.5 mllion lawsuit against the Government of Nunavut over the loss of the medevac contract.[10] In October 2017, the lawsuit was dismissed.[11]

Fleet

The Adlair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of September 2022) registered with Transport Canada:[2]

Adlair Aviation fleet
Aircraft No. of aircraft Variants Notes
Beechcraft Super King Air 1 200 Charters
Learjet 25 1 25B
Adlair Aviation's DHC Beaver (former)

Incidents

On April 15, 2009, an Adlair Aviation flight was returning from Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay. The plane in the incident was a Beechcraft King Air. While about 180 km (110 mi) from the airport, and at 23,000 ft (7,000 m), one of the two passengers, Julian Tologanak-Labrie,[12][Notes 1] became upset, opened the cabin door and jumped to his death. The aircraft landed in Cambridge Bay with the damaged door partially open and no injuries to the flight crew or the other passenger.[13][14][15] An inquest was called by Nunavut's chief coroner in June 2009.[15]

The coroner's inquest concluded in April 2010, and ruled that Tologanak committed suicide. The inquest recommended that Adlair Aviation install rear-view mirrors in its medevac aircraft, and have a nurse onboard during medical charter flights,[16] although Adlair Aviation already instituted a policy requiring such a nurse as a result of the incident.[17]

Notes

  1. ^ Some sources give the victim's first name as Julien, and the victim's last name as Tologanak.

References

  1. ^ Transport Canada (2019-09-05), Civil Aviation Services (CAS) AOC. wwwapps.tc.gc.ca.
  2. ^ a b "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: Quick Search Result for Adlair Aviation". Transport Canada. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  3. ^ "Our History". Adlair Aviation. 2001. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  4. ^ "About Us". Adlair Aviation. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  5. ^ George, Jane (2011-09-06). "Adlair fights GN decision on Kitikmeot medevac contract". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  6. ^ "Medivac". Adlair Aviation. 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-04-21. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  7. ^ George, Jane (2011-09-06). "Adlair fights GN decision on Kitikmeot medevac contract". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  8. ^ George, Jane (2011-10-04). "Facing an uncertain future, Adlair puts up brave front". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  9. ^ "Adlair Aviation Ltd. loses medevac contract appeal". 2011-10-31. Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  10. ^ Van Dusen, John (2015-08-27). "Adlair Aviation's $31.5M lawsuit over Nunavut medevac contract continues". CBC. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  11. ^ Frizzell, Sara (2017-10-17). "Adlair Aviation lost gov't medevac contract fair and square, Nunavut judge rules". CBC. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  12. ^ Holland, Eva (October 2012). "The One Who Jumped". Up Here Publishing. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  13. ^ Moore, Oliver (2009-04-17). "Pilots land safely after passenger jumps". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  14. ^ "Man leaps to death from Nunavut-bound airplane". CBC. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  15. ^ a b "Inquest called into death of Nunavut man who jumped from plane". CBC. 2009-06-26. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  16. ^ "Fatal jump from plane ruled a suicide". CBC. 2010-04-15. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  17. ^ George, Jane (2010-04-14). "Nunavut plane-jumper flew with girl who filed sexual assault complaint against him". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
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