Thunder Airlines is a Canadian scheduled flight, charter and medevac airline based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It offers an on-demand charter service from bases in Thunder Bay and Timmins. The company was founded in 1994 and operates fourteen aircraft and flies to six destinations regularly.
Destinations Thunder Airlines operates scheduled services to the following destinations in Ontario:Route Map Attawapiskat First Nation (Attawapiskat Airport) Fort Albany First Nation (Fort Albany Airport) Kashechewan First Nation (Kashechewan Airport) Moosonee (Moosonee Airport) Timmins (Timmins/Victor M. Power Airport) Peawanuck (Peawanuck Airport)
Fleet As of August 2019 Thunder Airlines website and Transport Canada list the following aircraft:
+ Thunder Airlines fleetAircraftNo. ofaircraftVariantsNotes Beechcraft King Air 7 100 series Seats up to nine and cruises at Our Fleet Cessna 208 Caravan 1 208B Grand Caravan Seats up to nine, cruises at , used mainly for cargo Mitsubishi MU-2 6 Marquise (MU-2B-60) Seats up to seven, cruises at , used mainly for MEDEVAC
The Transport Canada site lists: 1 - Mitsubishi MU-2L (MU-2B-36)Mitsubishi MU-2B-36 1 - Mitsubishi MU-2N (MU-2B-36A)Mitsubishi MU-2B-36A 1 - Marquise (MU-2B-60)Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 all with cancelled certificates.
Accidents and incidents On November 27, 2023, a MEDEVAC flight flown on a Mitsubishi MU-2 crashed upon landing at Wawa Airport, destroying the plane. No injuries were reported, but the runway was closed for over 2 days.
References
External links
Thunder Airlines official site