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Discovery Air is a Tier One sponsor of the Discovery Air Hawk One Project – Celebrating 100 years of powered flight in Canada! To learn more, please visit www.hawkone.ca.
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Headquartered in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Helicopters and its group of companies is the second-largest VFR operator in Canada.
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Discovery Mining Services is a mining service and expediting company serving the needs of companies operating throughout Canada.
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Air Tindi operates a diversified fleet of 25 fixed wing aircraft and offers air ambulance, cargo service and scheduled flights across Canada's north.
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Top Aces is the prime supplier of Airborne Training services to the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force.
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Discovery Air's Class A common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol DA.A.
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Whether you need to accommodate 2 or 80 people, our remote, portable, flyable all weather exploration camps can be customized for your needs. Complete with communications systems, kitchens, offices, dry/shower tents these camps have been constructed in the most remote locations in Canada.
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Discovery Air would like to congratulate the Great Slave Helicopters that recently won the third place medal in the Yellowknife Minor Hockey Junior Tournament. The team is sponsored by Discovery Air and recently spent the day looking over Discovery Air's Alpha Jet, which was in Yellowknife for the grand opening of the new headquarters.
Discovery Air's Top Aces Type 2 Combat Support Standing Offers Option Year Exercised to February 2011
Yellowknife, NWT – February 22, 2010 - Discovery Air Inc. announced today that its Interim Contracted Airborne Training Services (ICATS) Type 2 Standing Offers have been extended by the Government of Canada for a further... one year period. This follows last week’s one-year extension of the ICATS Type 1 Standing Offers.
Top Aces, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Air, is the prime supplier of Airborne Training Services to the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force. In February 2006, the Government of Canada awarded two National Standing Offers to Top Aces to provide “business jet” (Type 2) airborne training services to the Canadian Forces. These Standing Offers were for a three year period, with two option years. The Government has exercised the second option year, extending this service until Feb 2011.
“We are very pleased with this further extension of our services,” commented Didier Toussaint, Top Aces President. “The extension of both Type 1 and Type 2 standing offers confirms that the outsourcing of airborne training services provides great value to the Canadian Forces. Our Aircraft Captains are experienced ex-Canadian Forces pilots who share the same ‘can-do’ attitude displayed by the Canadian Forces personnel with whom they work.”
Also as announced last week, Top Aces is continuing its review of the Government of Canada’s procurement plan for airborne training services beyond 2011 under a proposed new twenty year long term contract (10 years with two 5 year Government of Canada options) for both Type 1 (fast jet) and Type 2 services.
Top Aces is a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Air, a specialized aviation company that operates across Canada and around the world. With the second largest fleet in Canada, and over 500 employees Discovery Air offers fixed and rotary wing services as well as logistics and remote operations management. Discovery Air's Class A common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol DA.A. The Company’s Debentures trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol DA.DB.
For further information, please contact:
InvestorRelations@DiscoveryAir.com
Rolf S. Dawson
Vice President, Corporate Finance and Administration
Rolf.Dawson@discoveryair.com (867) 444 0060
Sheila Venman
Vice President, Administration,
Top Aces Inc.
sheilavenman@topaces.ca (613) 227 5710
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Discovery Mining Service annually sponsors an adult recreational soccer team in Yellowknife; whereas Air Tindi commits to two novice hockey teams – the Air Tindi Otters.
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Hicks & Lawrence operates with two divisions
A division dedicated to Air Charter Services and a Fire Division. The Air Charter Services division is operated by Walsten Air, a company wholly owned by Hicks & Lawrence.
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The Northlinx Network brings together many of the Great Slave Helicopters Aboriginal Joint-Venture Partnerships allowing all participants to benefit from pan-territorial mega-projects requiring helicopter services in the North. Presently there are nine partnerships operating in this profitable model around the NWT and Nunavut, including Denendeh Helicopters, Dehcho Regional Helicopters, Sahtu Helicopters, Kitikmeot Helicopters, Gwich’in Helicopters, Havgun Helicopters, Kivalliq Aviation, Tlicho Helicopters and Akaitcho Helicopters.
We are committed to providing our customers with specialty aviation solutions whenever and wherever they are required. Our pilots, maintainers, logisticians and administrators operate with precision and pride in some of the most challenging environments in the world.
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Discovery Air is committed to recruiting and retaining the best talent in aviation industry. By joining Discovery Air you will have the opportunity to participate in a unique and dynamic environment focused on growth, entrepreneurship, innovation and teamwork.
Hicks & Lawrence Limited, (“H&L”), is a Northern Ontario based Air Operator which has been active in the Canadian Aviation industry for over 50 years.
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If you would like to concentrate on flying aircraft while knowing you are in the safest hands around, our team of maintainers will take care of all aspects of managing your fleet.
The Turbine Single Otter is one of the most versatile and dependable bush airplanes operating in the North today. This aircraft is easily converted from full-passenger to all-cargo configuration quickly, or a combination of both may be used.
