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unusual facts about First Air


Dani Reiss

In 2009, Reiss and his team established the Canada Goose Resource Centres in three locations in Northern Canada, along with partners First Air and the North West Company.


Arctic Bay Airport

On January 13, 2010, First Air transferred all air services to Arctic Bay's newly expanded airport with service to Iqaluit and Resolute Bay.

Humanitarian response by for-profit organisations to the 2010 Haiti earthquake

First Air, along with the Belinda Stronach Foundation, has donated 2 Lockheed L-382 Hercules aircraft as well as a Boeing 767-200 'Super Freighter' to carry out rescue and relief missions.

Resolute Bay Airport

On August 20, 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a Boeing 737-200 charter flight transporting fifteen (15) people from Yellowknife, crashed near the airport.


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Don Diamont

On March 5, 2009 it was announced that Diamont would be joining the cast of the CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful in the contract role of Bill Spencer, Jr. His first air date was May 12, 2009.

Farman MF.7

A Greek plane was converted to a hydroplane, flown by Michael Moutoussis and with Aristeidis Moraitinis as observer, it carried out the world's first air-naval co-operation mission during the First Balkan War.

Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station

The mission of First Air Force was changed in early 1942 to the defense of the Atlantic Seaboard, and jurisdiction of Baer Field was transferred to III Bomber Command, Third Air Force in March 1942.

Gorman DeFreest Larner

Along with George Augustus Vaughn, Jr. and Howard Burdick, he helped form the 102nd Observation Squadron of the New York National Guard; it was the Guard's first air unit.

Hot air engine

It is likely that Robert Stirling's air engine of 1818, which incorporated his innovative Economiser (patented in 1816) was the first air engine put to practical work.

James Henry Deese

In 1936 he joined Carrier Corporation as field project engineer installing first air conditioning in the U.S. Capital and the Federal Reserve Buildings.

Panthers Over Korea

It flew 78,000 sorties and was responsible for the first air kill by the US Navy in the war—the downing of a North Korean Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter.

Regal Cinema

As per the Limca Book of Records it is the first air conditioned theatre of India.

Sadie Bonnell

She drove an ambulance in 1916 during some of the first air raids London experienced.

Sentara Healthcare

Sentara's air ambulance Nightingale, named for Florence Nightingale, began in late-February 1982 as the region's first air ambulance and the 38th air medical program in the country.

Wayne Fisk

In 1979, he was the first Air Force enlisted recipient of the US Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Men of America.

Zlín Z 43

At around 4am on 9 September 2008, the Sri Lanka Air Force reportedly achieved its first air to air kill when an F-7G successfully intercepted and brought down an Air Tigers Z-143 over Mullaittivu.