Checking Out


Fast Air helping businesses grow


For over 20 years, Fast Air has developed itself into one of Canada’s leaders in executive aviation.


By Derek Gagnon


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rom its beginnings in 1995, Fast Air has grown, us- ing several more planes and staffing more than 130 employees across five business units (aircraft char- ter, aircraft management, helicopters, medevac and


maintenance). “Fast Air started as a response to charter opportunities,” said Dan Rutherford, Fast Air’s manager of marketing and business development. “Fast Air owner and CEO, Dylan Fast, was a pilot flying for somebody else and saw an op- portunity. He got permission from the owner to use their aircraft. Tat opportunity grew and the relationship contin- ues to this day. We still manage one or two aircraft for that original company. Now we operate seven or eight jets, ten or eleven King Airs (Beechcraft) and service a whole number


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of sectors from government, to utilities, to manufacturers that are competing in the North American market and are based here in Winnipeg.” Fast Air has also started maintenance and modification of


Beechcraft King Air aircraft, a growing part of our business that is creating a lot of new jobs and opportunities. “Fast Air started as an air charter business, and that is still


a cornerstone of what we do, but now it is part of five busi- ness units,” said Rutherford. “Tere’s aircraft management, which allows a company to have an aircraft at their disposal without all the complications like crewing it, maintaining it, data communication to various authorities. We do all of that in-house, and provide a flight department of sorts for businesses.”


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