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August 17, 2023
Summit Air Supporting Evacuations and Essential Services

Summit Air is based in Yellowknife, and our staff and families are part of the close-knit community that is currently evacuating due to ongoing wildfires. We are temporarily relocating our employees and their families to Edmonton to support Yellowknife evacuations and maintain our operations to northern communities and our customers, while our aircraft continue to […]

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August 6, 2021
Summit Helicopters Achieves Bars Gold

“Summit Helicopters has always worked to understand our client’s needs, including established aviation standards that exceed Transport Canada requirements. We have developed internal processes to review these standards against our approved procedures, and to build reference documents, training, and exams so our crews are able to meet our clients’ expectations easily and efficiently. We first […]

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May 13, 2021
Peter Rice Appointed General Manager, Summit Helicopters

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Rice as General Manager, Summit Helicopters. As the General Manager, Peter will be responsible for providing safe, reliable and efficient operations at Summit Helicopters, while supporting the company’s strategic and operational plan. Throughout his 10 plus years working with the company, Peter has developed a broad […]

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April 18, 2020
New Measures Introduced By Transport Canada

Transport Canada now requires all passengers to wear non-medical masks. Click here to learn more.

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March 27, 2020
Statement From Summit Aviation Group

Summit Air To Lay-Off Employees Due To COVID-19, While Maintaining Essential Services Yellowknife, NWT (March 27, 2020) – Summit Air announced today that approximately 45 employees from its bases in Yellowknife, Edmonton, and Calgary will be temporarily leaving the organization as a result of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic slowdown. The airline had approximately 170 […]

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March 18, 2020
COVID-19 Information

YOUR HEALTH & SAFETY MATTERS At Summit, we are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation. We have implemented proactive measures across our companies to curb the spread of the virus and protect those at risk.  These include: Activating our crisis management team Adopting the latest public health recommendations and best industry practices for aircraft grooming Revised in-flight […]

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Summit Helicopters Deploys Brand New Bell 412 Helicopter for BC Ambulance Service | Summit Helicopters
August 29, 2019
Summit Helicopters Deploys Brand New Bell 412 Helicopter For BC Ambulance Service

Kamloops, BC (August 29, 2019) – Summit Helicopters announced that it has deployed a brand-new Bell 412 EPI helicopter to support the BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) in central British Columbia. “The Bell 412 EPI helicopter in Kamloops is brand-new and state-of-the-art rotary aircraft. We are extremely pleased to support the BC Ambulance Service in central […]

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August 26, 2016
Summit Helicopters Assists in Combatting Fort McMurray Wildfires

Since May 1st, Summit Helicopters crews put in an overwhelming number of hours and effort towards fighting the forest fire that devastated Fort McMurray on May 3rd.  Since first dispatched, Summit’s Bell 407 and a Bell 412 have been working under contract with Alberta Forestry, with over 450 hours of flight time between the two […]

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Summit Helicopter Tours at the Long John Jamboree
April 1, 2016
Summit Helicopter Tours at the Long John Jamboree

Summit Helicopters is proud to support the Long John Jamboree in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, by providing helicopter tours at the three-day-long festival. The fifth annual jamboree took place from March 25 to March 27 on the ice of Yellowknife Bay and provided fun activities for the whole family. The festival brings the Yellowknife community together […]

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November 6, 2015
Summit Helicopters Contracted By CBC Documentary Wild Canada

Summit Helicopters has been contracted to carry a film crew as they capture caribou migration for the documentary, Wild Canada, presented by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)’s The Nature of Things. It is an epic four-part series that takes place across the vast scale of the Canadian landscape, revealing the country as it has never been […]

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