Air Satellite

Airline based in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada

Air Satellite

IATA	ICAO	Callsign
6O	ASJ	SATELLITE

Founded

1968

Ceased operations

2007

Hubs

Baie-Comeau Airport

Fleet size

Headquarters

Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada

Air Satellite was an airline based in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada. It operated scheduled, charter passenger and cargo services, as well as supplying aviation fuel, ground services and aircraft maintenance and repair. Its main base was Baie-Comeau Airport,^[1] with hubs at Rimouski Airport, Sept-Îles Airport, Havre Saint-Pierre Airport and Quebec Airport.^{[citation needed]}

History

The airline was established in 1968 and started operations in May 1968. It was founded by Jean Fournier and Real Poulin as a flying school. The acquisition of other related companies led to the launch into passenger and cargo transport services.

Air Satellite sustained a fatal accident on December 7, 1998, when its aircraft, a Britten-Norman BN2A Islander, fell into the St. Lawrence River one mile from the Baie-Comeau Airport, killing 7 and injuring 3 more.^[2] The crash was one cause for the airline's diminished success, which eventually led to its sale in 2007 to Exact Air.^[3]

Fleet

The Air Satellite fleet consisted of the following aircraft in August 2007:^[1]

2 Raytheon Beech King Air 100
3 Cessna 402
1 Cessna 310

References

^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 66.
^ "Le crash du 7 décembre 1998 face à Baie-Comeau - Le pilote manquait d'expérience", Le Devoir, November 23, 2002 (in French).
^ "Air Satellite passe aux mains d'Exact Air" Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, Radio-Canada, August 1, 2007 (in French).