Aviation News. 05.2018

the type but has now standardised on the

10-14 seat Turbo Otter, which is the mainstay

of the  eet.

The company’s CEO, Greg McDougall,

founded the airline in 1982. “As we grew,

market opportunities allowed for us to take

over smaller carriers,” he said. “Our  eet of

Turbo Otters and Beavers are excellent, well-

made, aircraft and we have a maintenance

and engineering division where we service

them. The Otter and Beaver are iconic

in aviation and Canadian history. We still

 y these aircraft today, a testament to

their reliability and Canada’s excellence

in aviation. We  y by visual  ight rules

[VFR], so our winter season is much more

abbreviated than our summer as we are

using daylight hours.”

The company president since last year

is Randy Wright, and he was the executive

vice president prior to that. He started with

the company in 2001 after working with the

Oak Bay Marine Group, which chartered

seaplanes on the British Columbia coast to

 y to its remote recreational  shing lodges.

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The link between Vancouver Harbour and

Victoria Harbour – a distance of 72 miles

(115km) takes around 35 minutes. Even

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One of the company’s Otters in a special livery and ‘Fly Carbon Neu tral’ titles.

Above: Harbour Air painted two of its

aircraft in special colours for the 150th

anniversary of Canada’s Confederation in

2 0 1 7. Harbour Air

Left: A Westcoast Air DHC-6-100 in Victoria

Harbour in 2010 – the same year the carrier

was taken over.

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