Alkan Air Ltd. acting as Alkan Air is a Canadian local airline with headquarters in Whitehorse , Yukon Province , performing charter passenger and cargo flights as well as providing mobile ambulance services ( sanaviatsii ) in the northern and western parts of the country.
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| Founding date | 1977 | |||
| Base airports | Whitehorse Airport | |||
| Fleet size | eight | |||
| Headquarters |  Whitehorse , Canada | |||
| Site | alkanair.com | |||
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History
The airline Alkan Air was established in 1977 by Barry Watson and two businessmen from Whitehorse , Win and Joey Muff. The company received its name in honor of the Alaska Highway (“Al” - Alaska, “Can” - Canada), passing through the Whitehorse. In 1987, the Maffa brothers sold their shares in the airline to another businessman, Hugh Kitchen, and the money they received from the deal was invested in the local telecommunications business.
Alkan Air began flying on two planes: the Cessna 206 equipped with floats / skis and the standard Cessna 207 . By 1987, the company stopped flights on aircraft with replaceable landing gear and opened several regular passenger flights from Whitehorse to other locations in the Yukon. By the early 1990s, however, Alkan Air gradually phased out its regular routes and reoriented itself to charter flights and air ambulance flights.
Fleet
As of the end of 2009, the following aircraft made up the Alkan Air fleet:
- 1 Beech King Air 300 ;
- 2 Beech King Air 200 ;
- 1 Piper Navajo Chieftain ;
- 1 Cessna 206 ;
- 2 DHC-3 Otter ;
- 1 Cessna Caravan ;
- 1 Short SC.7 Skyvan .