West Wind Aviation (Saskatoon) has acquired various aviation assets relating to fellow Saskatchewan-based operator Osprey Wings (La Ronge).
West Wind’s vice president of business development and customer relations Dennis Baranieski said in a statement that the purchase entails a Beech (twin turboprop) King Air 200, a pair of Beech 1900Ds, four DHC-6-300s, and two aircraft hangars at La Ronge airport. Roughly 300 former Osprey employees have also joined the company.
West Wind is Saskatchewan's second-largest commercial aviation group offering scheduled service between Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert under its Express Air (Canada) (Saskatoon) banner. Service in northern Saskatchewan and Nunavut is provided under the Pronto Airways (Saskatoon) banner. For its part, Osprey Wings had offered charter flights around Northern Saskatchewan to the mining, tourism, and public service sectors.
"We've had bases in Saskatoon and Stony Rapids and there was really that area in between those two centres that was being serviced by West Wind but this allows us to look after our customers in that central region of Saskatchewan from La Ronge right over to Buffalo Narrows and east over to the Manitoba border,” Baranieski said.
