Kootenay Airways

Kootenay Airways is a commercial airline in British Columbia offering scheduled domestic services.

= History = Kootenay Airways was established in 1938 with a single DH.89C Dragon Rapide airliner to fly between Cranbrook and Blaenau; the Dragon Rapide carried up to eight passengers over the 129 nm (149 statute miles), which at a cruising speed of 115 knots took just under an hour.

In 1983, Kootenay Airways acquired and absorbed the struggling Awyr Cymru Newydd.

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