Anderson Air Ltd

Anderson Air is an aircraft management and executive charter company founded in 1980 and based at Signature Flight Support in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond. It is family-owned: founder John Anderson is chief executive and his son Ryan Anderson is president and chief operating officer. The company calls itself the longest-established business of its kind in British Columbia.

Its two main services are charter and aircraft management. Charter covers business jets and helicopters, and empty-leg flights are sold at reduced fares. Management clients get crews, maintenance and trip support, and can earn charter revenue from their aircraft to offset costs. The company also lists aircraft partnerships (shared ownership), maintenance and aircraft sales.

Its website lists the aircraft it manages. Jets include the Falcon 7X, Falcon 900LX, Falcon 2000LX, Global 6000, Challenger 605, Challenger 350, Learjet 75 and Citation Sovereign, and helicopters include an Airbus H130 and an AS355 Twinstar. The about page puts the fleet at ten jets and one helicopter. Because most of these are owner aircraft under management, what is available for charter can change.

The jets range from midsize to ultra-long-range, so trips can run from regional West Coast flights to international missions. The helicopters are used for short local flights.

The company says its maintenance engineers are approved by Transport Canada and that it has had no Transportation Safety Board incidents. Both are its own claims; its air operator certificate details were not checked for this profile.