North Star Air

North Star Air
A Pilatus PC-12 at Cambridge Bay Airport
IATA CDD Call sign
0N BF[1] BLACKFLY[1]
AOC #11025[2]
HubsThunder Bay International Airport,
Pickle Lake Airport,
Red Lake Airport,
Thompson Airport,
Kapuskasing Airport
Secondary hubsSioux Lookout Airport
Fleet size15,[3] 18[4]
Destinations18[5]
Parent companyThe North West Company
HeadquartersThunder Bay, Ontario
Key peopleFrank Kelner
Websitewww.northstarair.ca

North Star Air is a Canadian charter, passenger and cargo airline headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ontario,[6] with secondary passenger hub in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, and cargo hubs located in Pickle Lake, Red Lake, Kapuskasing and Thompson, Manitoba. The majority of destinations served are First Nations communities, with regular service to 18 airports under "Flex Flight Passenger Service",[5] and other regional destinations under an on-demand basis. Founded in 1997 as a floatplane operator with two DHC-2 Beaver aircraft based in Pickle Lake, the airline has grown over the years and came under new ownership in 2012. In 2015 Cargo North and North Star Air merged under the North Star banner. In 2022 North Star Air opened up their brand new cargo depot based in Winnipeg.

On 28 April 2017, it was announced that North Star Air had been purchased by The North West Company for a sum of $31 million.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Domestic Designator and Telephony Assignments" (PDF). Nav Canada. 10 February 2023. p. 1. Retrieved 27 February 2023. North Star Air: BF, BLACKFLY
  2. ^ Transport Canada (2 September 2019), Civil Aviation Services (CAS) AOC. wwwapps.tc.gc.ca.
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  6. ^ "Contact Us - Charter. Passenger. Cargo". Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  7. ^ "North West Company spends $31M to buy its own airline". 29 April 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.