First Air
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1946 - 2019
Historical Note
First Air was an airline headquartered in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It operated services to 34 communities in Nunavut, Nunavik, and the Northwest Territories. The airline was wholly owned by the Inuit of Quebec through the Makivik Corporation, which purchased the company in 1990. In 1995 it acquired Ptarmigan Airways, and in 1997, Northwest Territorial Airways (NWT Air). In 2019, the airline merged with Canadian North.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 3, D-F)
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-3
Abstract
The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.
Dates:
circa 1910s-2020s; Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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