Arts & Crafts
Travel and Logistics
Travel between the regions of the NWT is provided by the following companies.
Canadian North
(Operated by Air NorTerra Inc.)
Head Office:#300 5201-50th Ave.
Yellowknife, NT, X1A 3S9
Tel:(867) 669-4000
Fax: (867) 669-4040.
Scheduled, charter passenger and cargo service throughout the NWT. Connections to both domestic and international services. Canadian Plus Bonus Points.
Local information:
Inuvik (867) 777-2951,
Norman Wells (867) 587-2361,
Yellowknife (867) 873-4484.
Sales Office: Yellowknife (867) 873-5533.
Toll free reservations call:
Western Arctic 1-800-661-1505,
United States 1-800-426-7000.
First Air
Head Office: 3257
Carp Road, Carp, ON K0A 1L0
Tel: (613) 839-3340
Fax: (613) 839-5690.
Reservations: 1-800-267-1247.
E-mail: reservat@firstair.ca
Fax: (613) 738-2133.
Canada's second largest scheduled airline, operates between Ottawa, Montreal, Winnepeg and Edmonton & 26 communities in Nunavut, Nunavik, NWT and Greenland. All flights earn Aeroplan miles. Our fleet consists of over 30 aircraft, mainly B737, B727, Hawker Siddeley 748, Twin Otters and Herc aircraft.
Big River Air Ltd.
Box 688,
Fort Smith, NT X0E 0P0.
Tel: (867) 872-3030
Fax: (867) 872-5202.
E-mail: bigriver@auroranet.nt.ca
website: www.auroranet.nt.ca/bigriver
Buffalo Airways Ltd.
1000 Buffalo Drive,
Hay River, NT. X0E 0R9
Tel: (867) 873-6112.
For overnight service use:
Tel: (867) 873-2084
Fax: (867) 873-8393.
Landa Aviation
Larry Buckmaster, 100 Whitlock Rd,
Hay River, NT X0E 0R9.
Tel: (867) 874-3500
Fax: (867) 874-2927.
E-mail: xannebu@ssimicro.com
Aircraft: Twin Otter, Cessna 402, 337, 185, Aerostar TS. Wheels, skis, floats, and amphibious floats. VISA.
Northwestern Air Lease Ltd.
Terry Harrold, Box 23,
Fort Smith, NT X0E 0P0
Tel: (867) 872-2216/8739
Fax: (867) 872-2214.
Reliance Airways Ltd.
Dan Wettlaufer P.O. Box 1469,
Fort Smith, NT X0E 0P0
Tel: (867) 872-4004
Fax: (867) 872-4004
All Season Air Charter Service, Floats/Wheels/Skis, Fort Smith and Lutselke
Adlair Aviation (1983) Ltd.
Paul Laserich, Box 2946,
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2R3
Tel: (867) 873-5161
Fax: (867) 873-8475.
Air Tindi
Bob Schnurr
Box 1693, 28 Mitchell Drive,
Latham Island, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2P3.
Tel: (867) 669-8200
Fax: (867) 669-8210
E-mail: info@airtindi.com
Website: www.airtindi.com. Scheduled and Charter Passenger and Cargo Service Regions: Dehcho, North Slave, Sahtu, South Slave, and the High Arctic including Nunavut
Phone: (867) 669-8200
Arctic Excursions Ltd.
Michael Wood. 3503 Macdonald Drive,
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2H2.
Tel: 669-7216
Fax: 669-7322
Email: arcticx@yk.com.
Arctic Sunwest
Box 1807,
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P4
Tel: (867) 873-4464/1804.
Fax: (867) 920-2661.
Old Town Float Base
Yvonne Quick, 5 Lessard Dr.,
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2N6
Tel: (867) 873-5330.
Fax: (867) 873-5791.
Charter air service based on Latham Island in Yellowknife's Old Town. Personalized service, for canoeing, camping, fly-out fishing, naturalist, tundra, wilderness tours. Flightseeing tours. Cessna 185, Cessna 206. Dockage for visiting aircraft and gas sales.
Aklak Air Inc.
Box 1190,
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Tel: Charter information: (867) 777-3555. Scheduled flights: (867) 777-3777.
Fax: (867) 777-3388.
E-mail: aklak@idc.inuvialuit.com
Arctic Wings
(Arctic Wings & Rotors Ltd.)
Carl and Olav Falsnes
Box 1916,
Inuvik, NT, X0E 0T0 |
Phone: Toll Free 1-877-55-WINGS or 867-777-2220.
Fax 867-777-3440
Aircraft Operated: C206 x 2 (floats, skis, wheels) C207 x 2 (wheels) Piper >Navajo Chieftain (wheels) Provide scheduled service to Aklavik and Fort McPherson. Scenic tours and charters to Herschel Island, Tuktoyaktuk, McKenzie Delta, Summit Lake, Horton, Snake, Anderson and Firth Rivers and across the NWT and Alaska.
Beaudel Air Ltd.
Box 2040,
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Tel: (867) 777-2333
Fax: (867) 777-3758
North-Wright Airways
Bag Service 2200,
Norman Wells, NT X0E 0V0.
Administration and Aircraft Charters: (867) 587-2288.
Scheduled Flight Reservations: (867) 587-2333.
Fax: (867) 587-2962.
Website: www.north-wrightairways.com
Email: north-wright@nt.sympatico.ca
Scheduled and charter services on a wide variety of single and twin engine aircraft. Canadian Connector scheduled service to Colville Lake, Fort Good Hope, Tulita, Deline, Inuvik and Yellowknife. Charter services across the north, including Nunavut, Yukon and Alaska. Mountain and off strip operations on floats, skis and tundra tires.
Williams Aero/Arctic Airlines
Ken Williams,
Box 417,
Norman Wells, NT X0E 0V0.
Tel: (867) 587-2243
Fax: (867) 587-2335
Blackstone Aviation/Goleeah Air
Paul and Margaret Jones,
Box 151,
Fort Liard, NT X0G 0A0
Tel: phone Whitehorse mobile operator and ask for Pointed Mountain YJ39704, or contact Goleeah Air at
Tel: (867) 695-2111
Fax: (867) 695-2132.
Dehcho Air Ltd.
Chief pilot,
Box 78,
Fort Liard, NT X0G 0A0
Tel: (867) 770-4103
Fax: (867) 770-4102.
Charter air service based in Fort Liard. Fly-in fishing, canoeing, flightseeing trips. Specializing in Nahanni National Park, including South Nahanni River trips and access to Cirque of the Unclimbables. C-185, C-206, Beaver, Otter, Islander. Wheels, floats, skis. VISA.
Simpson Air
Ted Grant,
Box 260,
Fort Simpson, NT X0E 0N0
Tel: (867) 695-2505
Fax: (867) 695-2925.
Email: simpair@cancom.net
Website: www.cancom.net/~simpair
Simpson Air (and its predecessors) is the oldest, continuously operated flying service in the Mackenzie Valley, established in the early 1960s.
South Nahanni Airways
Jacques Harvey,
Box 407,
Fort Simpson NT, X0E 0N0
Tel: (867) 695-2007
Fax: (867) 695-2943.
Spur Aviation Ltd./Great Bear Aviation
R.O. Jensen,
Box 2635,
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P9
Tel: (867) 873-3626 (24 hr.).
Fax: (867) 873-6195.
Wolverine Air (1988) Ltd.
Chris Pinckard,
Box 316,
Fort Simpson, NT X0E 0N0
Tel: (867) 695-2263
Fax: (867) 695-3400.
E-mail: wolair@cancom.net
Web site: www.wolverineair.com
Continental Helicopters
Box 2020
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Tel: (867) 777-2323
Fax: (867) 777-2444.
Great Slave Helicopters
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2R3
Tel: (867) 873-2081
Fax: (867) 873-6087
North Arctic Helicopters Ltd.
Jim Broadbent, Box 467,
Fort Simpson, NT X0E 0N0
Tel: (867) 695-2744
Fax: (867) 695-2669.
Remote Helicopters (NWT) Ltd.
Box 1033,
Hay River, NT X0E 0R0
Tel: (867) 874-6999 or 587-2691.
Sahtu Helicopters
Box 254
Norman Wells, NT X0E 0V0
Tel: (867) 587-2827
Fax: (867) 587-3027
Email: info@sahtuheli.com
Helicopter Charter Service. "Supporting all your Tourism needs." Providing local aerial transportation into the Mackenzie Mountains and surrounding areas. Wildlife Capture/Surveys, Mining/Oil and Gas Support, Aerial Construction