Conair Group

Conair Aerial Firefighting.
An Air Tractor AT-802
IATA ICAO Call sign
N/A FGD[1] FIREGUARD[1]
FoundedApril 1969
AOC #Canada:2626[2]
HubsAbbotsford International Airport
Fleet size59[3]
Parent companyConair Group Inc.
HeadquartersAbbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Key peopleBarry Marsden (President & CEO)
Websitehttp://www.conair.ca/

Conair Group Inc. of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, formerly known as Conair Aviation, is a company specializing in retrofitting firefighting aircraft, maintaining customer and company-owned aircraft and aerial firefighting. Conair currently[when?] employs over 250 staff and has a fleet of aircraft that are broken down into two categories; air attack (a.k.a. bird dog), and airtankers (a.k.a. waterbombers). Conair specializes in fire management support by providing services and products to forest protection agencies around the world. In 1996 Conair became a Canadian Air Tractor dealer for the AT-802F air tanker.[4] A former Conair Group division; Cascade Aerospace was acquired by the IMP Group of Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2012.

  1. ^ a b "ICAO Designators for Canadian Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services" (PDF). Nav Canada. May 4, 2023. p. 3. Retrieved February 26, 2023. Conair Aviation: FGD, FIREGUARD
  2. ^ Transport Canada (December 27, 2020), Civil Aviation Services (CAS) AOC. wwwapps.tc.gc.ca.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference tcfleet was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ [1] Archived 2016-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Conair Group