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The Cree Nation of Chisasibi celebrated the motorboat of its caller hose earlier this month. SiBi Air volition supply aesculapian evacuation and charter formation services and has plans to grow already.
Community hopes to grow SiBi Air already with bush level and grooming programs
Terrence Duff · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 1:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 18
A caller 9-passenger Beechcraft King Air 350 landing connected the runway successful Chisasibi, Quebec helped the Cree Nation of Chisasibi people the motorboat of its caller hose earlier this month.
In an email to CBC news, Chisasibi Chief Daisy House said galore radical got affectional that day.
"It was a show to spot erstwhile the pilots of SiBi Air did a speedy fly-over Chisasibi," she said.
For much than 20 years, assemblage members and officials person discussed the thought of Chisasibi owning its ain level oregon airline.
SiBi Air, owned by the Cree Nation of Chisasibi, volition supply aesculapian evacuation and charter formation services, according to a property release. Chisasibi is the lone assemblage successful Eeyou Istchee with an outpatient infirmary – and operation connected a bigger $420 cardinal infirmary is scheduled to statesman this spring.
"We enactment a batch of enactment into this project, truthful it is successful," said Barry Bearskin, manager wide of operations for the Cree Nation of Chisasibi. "We did what the radical wanted considering it's been discussed for a agelong time."
SiBi Air celebrated its work motorboat connected March 5. Plans for the airline's aboriginal are already taking shape. The assemblage hopes to adhd a bush level to cater to land-users who enactment retired connected the onshore astir of the year, arsenic good arsenic chopper services and a aviator grooming program.
"I americium anxious to commencement the aviator programming schoolhouse present successful Chisasibi, for anyone who wants to travel a aviator program, truthful they don't person to determination down southbound to instrumentality the grooming to beryllium a pilot," said Bearskin.
Bearskin hopes the programme volition assistance the hose to person wholly Cree pilots successful the future.
"We are trying to make much opportunities for radical successful antithetic fields," said Bearskin.
House, meanwhile, said her assembly has ever shown enactment for the thought of having its ain airline.
"The time of the work motorboat of SiBi Air was genuinely a arrogant infinitesimal for Chisasibi," she said.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ᑌᕆᓐᔅ Terrence Duff is Eeyou (Cree), from Chisasibi, Quebec on the bluish shores of James Bay. He is backmost with CBC North, Cree Unit successful Montreal moving for radio, tv and web. For him, moving and reporting successful his mother-tongue Îyiyû Ayimûn (East Cree) is simply a blessing and a privilege.
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