Harbour Air Seaplanes

Vancouver Harbour

Harbour Air, based in Vancouver, Canada, is the world's largest seaplane company. It has exclusively equipped with floats aircraft.

History

The airline was founded in 1981 by three pilots as a charter airline for the wood industry. They bought two airplanes and settled in a floating office with jetty in the port of Vancouver. Shortly thereafter he began charter flights to leisure resorts and hunting and fishing camps along the coast of British Columbia. Additionally, sightseeing tours were offered over the archipelago and fjord regions. This was followed by fixed connections from Vancouver to Vancouver Iceland.

1993 Harbour bought the Trans Provincial Airlines from Prince Rupert. The coastal town about 900 kilometers north of Vancouver is the southern starting point of the Alaska Ferry and western terminus of the Canadian Railroad.

2010 took over the company Harbour Air West Coast Air

The routes north of Vancouver are, however, operated only charter service. We fly only by sight. The instrument rules for passenger flights do not apply to seaplanes, there has to be checked on the water prior to touchdown, if not a fishing boat or a tree trunk is in the way.

Destinations

The scheduled services from Vancouver to Vancouver Iceland are operated by DHC -3 Turbine Single Otter. On route to Gulf Iceland DHC- 2 Beaver be used. The charter is done with Cessna 185

Fleet

According to Canadian aircraft register, the company operates with stand July 2013 forty aircraft:

On the website of the company 's fleet is shown in deviation of the ownership. The fleet is specified for both Harbour Air as well as West Coast Air, as follows:

Subsidiary

Harbour Air also maintains the Harbour Air Malta, which in Malta -Gozo Valletta connection periodically with a de Havilland Canada DHC -3 Turbine Single Otter and now two pilots flying since 2004.