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Kenn Borek Air
IATA ICAO Call sign
4K KBA BOREK AIR[1]
Founded1970
HubsCalgary International Airport
Fleet size57[2]/38[3]
Parent companyKenn Borek Air Ltd.
HeadquartersCalgary, Alberta
Key peopleSean Loutitt, Vice President, Operations
Tony Szekely, Chief Pilot
Websitewww.borekair.com

Kenn Borek Air is an airline based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It operates regional passenger and cargo services, contract operations in the Arctic and Antarctic and aircraft leasing. Its main base is Calgary International Airport.[4] It charters aircraft for scientific expeditions, oil exploration, etc., and operates air ambulance services.

History

The airline began operations in 1970 with a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter providing air support for oil exploration activities in the Canadian Arctic. In April 2001, Kenn Borek Air rescued Dr. Ron Shemenski from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. When float operations are impossible during the Canadian winter, Kenn Borek Air leases many of its planes and pilots to the Maldivian Air Taxi service. [5]

Kenn Borek Air offers a full service overhaul maintenance hangar (for Twin Otter maintenance, DC-3 maintenance, and Basler maintenance) in Calgary with routine maintenance being completed wherever the aircraft is located.

The airline is wholly owned by Borek Construction.[4]

Destinations

C-GFKB, EMBRAER EMB 110 Bandeirante (E110), commonly referred to as the Bandit, at Cambridge Bay Airport

As of January 2009, Kenn Borek Air operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations in Nunavut as Unaalik Aviation [6]:

Kenn Borek also operates services to several communities in the Northwest Territories as Aklak Air:

Fleet

Basler BT-67 at Williams Field, Antarctica

As of January 2009, the Kenn Borek site indicates they operate 57 aircraft.[2] This includes 35 Twin Otters, which they say is one of the largest fleets in the world. According to Transport Canada the company had 38 aircraft registered as of 28 February 2009.[3]

Kenn Borek Fleet
Aircraft No. of Aircraft
(KBA list)[2]		 No. of Aircraft
(TC list)[3]		 Variants
Basler BT-67 - 1 DC-3T
Beechcraft 90 - 1 C90
Raytheon Beech B99 - 3 99, B99
Beechcraft 100 - 10 100, A100
Beechcraft 200 - 5 200
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 35 12 300
Douglas DC-3 - 1 DC3C
Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante - 4 110P1

Accidents and incidents

  • On 20 December 2007, Basler BT-67 C-FMKB was substantially damaged in a take-off accident at Mount Patterson, Antarctica when the take-off was attempted with insufficient speed for flight. Of the 12 people on board, only the co-pilot suffered minor injuries. Although both sets of undercarriage collapsed and the port wing was damaged, the aircraft was later repaired and returned to service.[11][12]
  • On 25 October 2010, Beechcraft King Air operating as flight KBA-103 en route from Edmonton City Centre to Kirby Lake (CFR4), crashed 1.5 NM southeast of Kirby Lake (55 20.5N / 110 36.2W). One of the ten occupants on board was killed. </ref>[13]

References

  1. ^ TP143 - Air Traffic Designators
  2. ^ a b c Kenn Borek fleet
  3. ^ a b c Aircraft registered to Kenn Borek Air according to Transport Canada, search "Kenn Borek" on last search field, Owner Name
  4. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 100.
  5. ^ WELCOME to Kenn Borek Air Ltd. - Experts in Aircraft Charter and Leasing
  6. ^ KBA flight schedule
  7. ^ "C-FIQR Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  8. ^ "C-FCRW Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
  9. ^ Flight International, 31 July 1982, p267 Retrieved on 23 July 2010.
  10. ^ "C-FQHF Accident report". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  11. ^ "C-FMKB Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  12. ^ "ANC08TA028". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  13. ^ ASN78871
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