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{{Infobox airline
|airline = Saltspring Air
|logo =
|logo_size = 250
| image = End of the day Salt Spring Air at Sunset.jpg
| caption =

|fleet_size=
|destinations=
|founded=2003
|IATA=-
|ICAO=101
|callsign=SALT SPRING
|headquarters=[[Saltspring Island]], [[British Columbia]]
|parent=[[Harbour Air Seaplanes]]
|key_people= {{plainlist|
* St. Clair McColl (founder)
* Philip Reece (partner)
* Lisa Cherneff (partner)
* Harold Kirkpatrick (chief pilot)
}}
|website={{URL|http://www.harbourair.com|Salt Spring Air}}
}}

'''Salt Spring Air''' (also known as '''Saltspring Air'''<ref name="mainpage">[http://www.harbourair.com Salt Spring Air] - Retrieved on June 6, 2016</ref>), now part of [[Harbour Air Seaplanes]], is a [[floatplane]] company based on [[Salt Spring Island]], [[British Columbia]], Canada.<ref>[http://www.saltspringmarket.com/top_Location.htm Getting to Salt Spring] - Salt Spring Market. Retrieved on March 30, 2008</ref> It operates scheduled flights, charter air service and tours, with its base in [[Ganges, British Columbia|Ganges]]<ref name="tc">[http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/Report/anre2005/add/taba96.htm Local service airlines providing scheduled air services] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128130357/http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/Report/anre2005/add/taba96.htm |date=2007-11-28 }} - Transport Canada. Retrieved on March 30, 2008.</ref> in Harbour Air Seaplanes [[Aircraft livery|livery]] with the Salt Spring Air name on the side of the aircraft and specializes in routes between the [[Gulf Islands]] and [[Vancouver Island]].<ref name="ssa.com">[http://www.saltspringair.com/ The Islanders Airline] - saltspringair.com. Retrieved on March 30, 2008.</ref> Along with [[West Coast Air]], Harbour Air and [[Seair Seaplanes]], Salt Spring Air is one of the four airlines that operate in the [[Vancouver Harbour Water Airport]] and [[Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110526170511/http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/SearchResultsListings/BritishColumbia.htm?CATID=-1&LOCID=646&KWDS=&NBY=True&FLID=646&FL1ID=5032&PN=2 Vancouver Harbour ATC]</ref> Scheduled flights by the company also operate between the Gulf Islands and the [[Vancouver International Airport]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110526170511/http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/SearchResultsListings/BritishColumbia.htm?CATID=-1&LOCID=646&KWDS=&NBY=True&FLID=646&FL1ID=5032&PN=2 Transport listings] - Tourism BC. Retrieved on 30 March 2008.</ref>

==History==

In June 2003, St. Clair McColl started Salt Spring Air, with local [[seaplane]] services based on the Gulf Islands with a four-seat [[Cessna 185]]. The airline's services were targeted to the islands' residents, and personalized services were offered. Since then, with the introduction of [[de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver|de Havilland Beavers]] in 2004, the company's fleet has grown to four planes operating six scheduled flights from Salt Spring Island to Vancouver, and other scheduled flights fly to various other locations on the Gulf Islands. It remains the only airline based on Salt Spring Island.<ref>[http://saltspringair.com/about-us/ Our story] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702045824/http://saltspringair.com/about-us/ |date=2016-07-02 }} - Saltspring Air. Retrieved on April 1, 2008.</ref>

During what began as a routine flight on March 19, 2007, McColl rescued a father and son from the frigid waters of the [[Strait of Georgia]] after a passenger noticed their capsized boat and notified McColl. The pilot and his two passengers were later honoured by the Lifesaving Society of British Columbia for the rescue.<ref>[http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/saltspringislanddriftwood/news/17017886.html Awards to Salt Spring Air, pilot and passengers]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=5a74a81c-561f-466d-b451-162c01a19088&k=88767 Times colonist, 20 march 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104055029/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=5a74a81c-561f-466d-b451-162c01a19088&k=88767 |date=4 November 2012 }} A father and son from Vancouver whose boat capsized in the Strait of Georgia yesterday may owe their lives to a veteran seaplane pilot from Saltspring Air.</ref>

In November 2015, Salt Spring Air was purchased by the [[Harbour Air Seaplanes]] Group which operates in Harbour Air Seaplanes [[Aircraft livery|livery]] with Salt Spring Air name. Salt Spring Air's fleet now joins Harbour Air Seaplanes, Westcoast Air, and Whistler Air as the largest all seaplane airline in the world.

==See also==
* [[List of seaplane operators]]

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
*[http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=613269 Sep 21, 2006 11:00 ET VancouverTV.tv Launches Daily "What's Going On" as the Next Phase of Its Online Television] "For example, Salt Spring Air flew us to Ganges, worked with the community and helped produce a fantastic experience of a great destination."
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070331135041/http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp906/html/UriCogan.html Salt Spring Air’s dock shelter is a wheelhouse] The little shelter on the dock is a replica of the wheelhouse of the MV “Cy Peck” - built in 1922 and served as a ferry to the Gulf Islands from 1930 to 1966.
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516093002/http://www.gulfislands.net/aqua/04.pdf Santa's airline]}} Salt Spring Air take Santa around the Gulf Islands.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080123140002/http://yvr.ca/authority/airmail/archive_details.asp?id=878 The most famous bush plane] some say in the world, Salt Spring Air operate three from the Ganges base.

==External links==
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*Official site: [http://www.harbourair.com/ Salt Spring Air]

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