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Pacific Coastal Airlines
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| Pacific Coastal | ||
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| IATA 8P |
ICAO PCO |
Callsign PASCO |
| Founded | 1979 | |
| Hubs | Vancouver International Airport | |
| Fleet size | 20 | |
| Destinations | 12 | |
| Headquarters | Richmond, British Columbia | |
| Key people | Smith family | |
| Website: http://www.pacific-coastal.com | ||
Pacific Coastal Airlines is an airline based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It operates scheduled, charter and cargo services to destinations in British Columbia. Its main base is Vancouver International Airport, with hubs at Campbell River Airport, Penticton Regional Airport, Powell River Airport, Williams Lake Airport, Bella Coola Airport, Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, Victoria International Airport, Bella Bella Airport and Port Hardy Airport.[1].
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The airline was established in 1979 as the result of a merger between Powell Air and the Port Hardy division of Air BC. It acquired the shares and assets of Wilderness Airlines on 1 April 1998. It has 300 employees (at March 2007).[1].
Pacific Coastal operates services to the following destinations[2]:
- Anahim Lake
- Bella Bella
- Bella Coola
- Calgary
- Campbell River
- Comox
- Cranbrook
- Kamloops
- Klemtu
- Masset
- Penticton
- Port Hardy
- Port McNeill
- Powell River
- Terrace
- Trail, British Columbia
- Victoria
- Vancouver/Richmond
- Williams Lake
On November 28, 2007 a Shorts 360 aircraft landing in Victoria International Airport reported that the cockpit landing gear light was not indicating that the gear had fully deployed. The aircraft returned and landed at Vancouver International Airport without incident.
As of December 2007, the Pacific Coastal Airlines fleet[3] consisted of 26 aircraft:
| Aircraft | Count[4] | Variants | Notes |
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| Saab 340 | 8 | 340A | 30 passengers, based in Vancouver |
| Shorts 360 | 2 | 360-100 | 33 passengers, based in Vancouver |
| Beechcraft 1900 | 6 | 1900C | 19 passengers, based in Vancouver |
| Beechcraft Super King Air | 1 | 200 | 11 passengers, based in Vancouver |
| Grumman Goose | 6 | 9 passengers, based in Port Hardy and Vancouver | |
| de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver | 3 | 5 passengers, based in Port Hardy |
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-10, p. 60.
- ^ Pacific Coastal Airlines route map
- ^ Pacific Coastal Airlines fleet
- ^ Pacific Coastal Airlines fleet count update
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