Quebecair

Quebecair was domiciled at the airport Montreal -Trudeau Canadian airline that primarily line routes operated within Québec and next led by international charter flights.

History

The Quebecair emerged from the flight school was founded in 1946 Rimouski Rimouski Aviation Syndicate. After renaming in Rimouski Airlines led the company from 1947 through demand flights in the province of Quebec. The name Quebecair was adopted in 1953, after the airline Gulf Aviation was acquired and integrated into the company. Initially operated Quebecair with machines of the DHC- 2 Beaver and Douglas DC-3 an outgoing Rimouski regional scheduled flights, in the 1955, the provincial capital Quebec City and Montreal in 1958 were included. In the same year, the company, the first turboprop Fairchild F- 27, which replaced the smaller DHC- 2 Beaver gradually received. In the following years the company continued to expand and took over in April 1965, based in Matane Matane regional airline Air Service and in May 1965, based in Sept-Îles Northern Wings and its subsidiary Northern Wings Helicopters. Quebecair and four other regional airlines were selected in 1966 by the state as a feeder for the two largest Canadian carriers Air Canada and Canadian Pacific Airlines. As a result of this Agreement, the Province of Québec participated in the company. In 1969 Quebecair moved the headquarters to Montreal and earned the Royalair another regional airline. In the same year the company received the first two jets of the type BAC 1-11, which were weekdays, used on domestic scheduled routes primarily between Montreal and Toronto, as well as on weekends on charter flights to Florida, Freeport Montego Bay. The inclusion of charter flights to Britain, Ireland and West Germany took place in late 1974 with two Boeing 707- 123B, which came from the collections of American Airlines. The trans-Atlantic flights in 1979 first set after a Boeing 707 had to be written off due to an accident and the second long-haul aircraft was sold. In the same year the company its first Boeing 737-200, which was used due to two newly established line routes from Montreal to New York and Boston received. In 1984 Quebecair again led by charter flights to Europe. Leased machines of the type Douglas DC 8-63 were used.

Beginning of the 1980s came Quebecair into financial difficulties. In order to avert the impending bankruptcy of the company, the province of Quebec took a majority in 1981 in the company and made ​​an effort to economic recovery. However, the company worked in deficit even after the nationalization. Because of the high losses and the early deregulation of the Canadian aviation mid -1980s was aimed at re-privatization of the company. In 1986, took over the regional airline Nordair -Metro, a subsidiary of the airline Nordair that Quebecair and led the company initially under its previous brand name on. After the Nordair merged into the newly formed airlines Canadian Airlines International on March 27, 1987, the subsidiary Quebecair, Nordair Metro and Quebec Aviation were merged in November 1987 on the regional airline Inter- Canadian, which completely was owned by the Canadian Airlines International.

Incidents

  • On February 19, 1979 set with 171 inmates Boeing fell 707-123 (C- GQBH ) immediately before landing in Hewanorra on the island of St. Lucia in a wind shear. The machine crashed from a height of six feet hard on the runway, the nose gear and tore off the plane dragged his hull bottom on the runway. Due to the damage the aircraft was written off as a total loss. People were not injured.
  • On March 29, 1979, a set with 21 passengers and three crew members crashed Fairchild F-27 (CF - QBL ) due to an engine explosion shortly after takeoff from Quebec City. The crew and passengers 14 died in the crash.

Used aircraft

(without aircraft of its subsidiaries )

  • BAC 1-11 Series 200, 300 and 400
  • Beechcraft 18
  • Beechcraft 99
  • Boeing 707-123
  • Boeing 727-100
  • Boeing 737-200
  • Curtiss C-46
  • Convair CV 540 and CV 580
  • De Havilland Canada DHC-2
  • De Havilland Canada DHC -6
  • Douglas DC-3
  • Douglas DC-8- 54F and DC 8-63
  • Fairchild F-27
  • Fokker F- 28-1000
  • Hawker Siddeley HS 748 Series 2A
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