Keystone Air Service
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 Keystone Air Service Beech 200 at Cambridge Bay Airport | |||||||
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| Founded | 1985 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 2015[1] | ||||||
| Hubs | Winnipeg/St. Andrews Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Rural Municipality of St. Andrews Winnipeg | ||||||
| Fleet size | 6 | ||||||
| Destinations | Anywhere in North America | ||||||
| Headquarters | Winnipeg, Manitoba | ||||||
| Key people | Cliff Arlt - President | ||||||
Keystone Air Service Ltd. was an airline that served Manitoba, Canada, with charter services to anywhere in North America. Keystone had been flying since 1985 and provided air charter service to as far north as Alert, Nunavut. In 2015 merged into Wings over Kississing.[2]
Destinations
[edit]Anywhere in North America[citation needed]
Fleet
[edit]The Keystone Air Service fleet included:
| Aircraft | Variant | Count | Passengers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beechcraft Super King Air | 200 | 3 | 12
(8 in executive) |
| Piper PA-31 | Chieftain | 1 | 9 |
| Piper PA-31 | Navajo | 1 | 7 |
| Beechcraft Model 99 | B99 | 1 | 14 |
Incidents and accidents
[edit]- On 15 September 2015, a Piper PA-31 Navajo with two crew and six passengers crashed 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Thompson, Manitoba airport shortly after takeoff. All eight people were transported to hospital. The crash was caused by the refueller mistakenly filling the plane with jet fuel, instead of the required avgas.[3]
- In 2012, a Piper PA-31 carrying five passengers stalled on final approach and crashed near North Spirit Lake First Nation, Ontario due to adverse weather and icing conditions. The aircraft was destroyed and four passengers (including the pilot) were killed, while one passenger sustained serious injuries.[4][5]
- In 2002, a Piper PA-31-350 ran out of fuel and crashed at an intersection in Winnipeg, Manitoba after a missed approach to Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport runway 36. All seven passengers and several occupants in a vehicle on the ground were injured in the crash, and one passenger subsequently died from injuries.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Keystone Air suspended by Transport Canada - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Archived from the original on 9 September 2018.
- ^ "Keystone Air Service". ch-aviation. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ^ "Plane crashes in northern Manitoba; 8 injured". 15 September 2015.
- ^ "Aviation investigation report A12C0005 - Loss of control and collision with terrain - Keystone Air service limited, Piper PA31-350 Navajo Chieftain, C-GOSU - North Spirit Lake, Ontario" (PDF). 10 January 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2014.
- ^ "Plane crash in northwestern Ontario kills 4 | CBC News".
- ^ "Aviation investigation report A02C0124 - Fuel exhaustion - collision with terrain - Keystone Air services LTD" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2014.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Keystone Air Service.
- Keystone Air Service Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
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