Viking Air

Viking Air Limited is a Founded in 1970, air carriers. Headquartered in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Today Viking Air Limited is part of the Canadian private investor Wester Kirk Capital Inc.

The company is a service company for aircraft trading, leasing and maintenance and took over in 2006, the type certificates of the former De Havilland Canada aircraft type DHC -1 Chipmunk, DHC- 2 Beaver, DHC -2T Turbo Beaver, DHC -3 Otter, DHC -4 Caribou, DHC -5 Buffalo, DHC- 6 Twin Otter and DHC -7 Dash 7, which were sold by Bombardier Aerospace at Viking Air.

Aircraft production

On 2 April 2007 Viking Air announced the order of 27 aircraft. Now modernized - - DHC- 6 400 Twin Otter produced since 2008 is again. The first maiden flight of the new aircraft took place in Vancouver at Vancouver International Airport on 1 October 2008. The machines are powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 modern turboprop engines. In February 2010, production of the fully -equipped Twin Otter Series 400 with Honeywell 's Primus Apex IFR digital flight deck began. In addition, the DHC -2T Turbo Beaver is made.