Nav Canada

NAV CANADA

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Company type	Not for profit
Industry	Civil Air Navigation
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Products	Civil Air Navigation
Number of employees	Over 5,000
Website	NAV CANADA

The Calgary NAV CANADA Tower

NAV CANADA is a privately run, not-for-profit organization that operates Canada's civil air navigation service (ANS) and employs approximately 2,000 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 800 flight service specialists (FSSs) and 700 Technologists. It has been responsible for the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic in Canadian airspace since receiving this duty from Transport Canada in 1996. NAV CANADA remains a non share capital, not for profit, organization even though it operates independently of government funding. It is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario

NAV CANADA's operations consist of various sites across the country. These include:

• About 1,400 ground-based navigation aids
• 59 Flight Service Stations
• 8Flight Information Centres, one each in Kamloops, Edmonton, Winnipeg, London, North Bay, Quebec City, Halifax and Whitehorse.
• 41Control Towers
• 46 radar sites and 6 ADS-B ground sites (ADS-B will be implemented in 2007-2008)
• 7 Area Control Centers, one each in Vancouver (CZVR), Edmonton (CZEG), Winnipeg (CZWG), Toronto (CZYZ), Montreal (CZUL), Moncton (CZQM), and Gander (CZQX)
• The North Atlantic Oceanic control centre Gander Control
• 1 National Operations Centre in Ottawa
• The NAV CANADA Training and Conference Centre (NCTC) in Cornwall, Ontario

External links

• NAV CANADA
• NAV CANADA Training and Conference Centre
• NAV CANADA Career Page
• Air Traffic Controller and Flight Service Specialist Recruitment Site