Skyservice Investments

Skyservice Investments (SI) is, according to one investment firm, "Canada’s largest operator and provider of business aviation services. With locations at the Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary airports, the company provides fixed base operations and managed aircraft services to corporate and private clients."[1]

According to another service, SI "operates as an aviation company. The Company offers personal and commercial charter aviation, aircraft management and maintenance, air ambulance, [airline] catering, flight planning, courtesy transportation, and other related services. Skyservice Investments serves customers in Canada."[2]

The company is headquartered out of Toronto, Ontario (www.skyservice.com.[2])

History

SI's own website claims that it was founded in 1986.[3]

Between December 2012 and September 2017, a significant tranche of SI stock was owned by Fulcrum Capital Partners.[1]

InstarAGF Essential Infrastructure Fund purchased the majority stake of Skyservice Investments in September 2017 from Fulcrum.[4][5] In the same month Skyservice Investments Inc. - Les Investissements Skyservice Inc. was discontinued on the Federal Corporate registry.[6]

Skyservice has been since 2016 the sole representative of the HondaJet in the Canadian market.[7]

As of June 2018, SKYSERVICE BUSINESS AVIATION INC. aka SKYSERVICE AVIATION D'AFFAIRES INC. was listed as "discontuance pending" in the federal Corporate Registry.[8]

In September 2019, Skyservice sold its sixth HondaJet.[7]

In October 2019, SI purchased an aircraft hangar at Muskoka Airport in Gravenhurst.[9]

Leadership

One of the SI board members is Robert J. Ritchie, who is a former CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway.[2]

Subsidiaries

Skyservice Business Aviation[7]

As of February 2023, Skyservice Business Aviation has the following 58 aircraft registered with Transport Canada and operate as ICAO airline designator STB, and telephony SKYBIZ.[10][11]

Skyservice Business Aviation fleet
AircraftNumberVariantsNotes
Beechcraft Super King Air2300
Boeing 737 Classic1500
Bombardier Challenger 3004BD-100
Bombardier Global Express11BD-700
Bombardier Challenger 60013CL-600-2B16
Cessna Citation V2560XL
Cessna Citation Sovereign1Model 680
Dassault Falcon 9004900, 900EX
Dassault Falcon 200022000, 2000EX
Dassault Falcon 7X1
Gulfstream IV3G IV, GIV-X
Gulfstream V1
Gulfstream G5501GV-SP
Gulfstream G2003
Gulfstream G2802
Gulfstream G6501
Honda HA-4201
Learjet 453
Piaggio P.180 Avanti1Avanti II
Raytheon Hawker 8001Hawker 900XP

References
  1. "Skyservice Investments". Fulcrum Capital Partners. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  2. "Skyservice Investments Inc". Bloomberg LP. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. "ABOUT US". www.skyservice.com.
  4. "InstarAGF Essential Infrastructure Fund Partners With Skyservice". GlobeNewswire. 18 September 2017.
  5. "Fulcrum Capital Partners Sells Equity Ownership Position in Skyservice". GlobeNewswire. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  6. "Federal Corporation Information - 836751-5". Corporations Canada.
  7. "Skyservice Business Aviation leading Canada in aircraft sales". 12 September 2019.
  8. "Federal Corporation Information - 329182-1 - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada".
  9. "Skyservice lands at the Muskoka Airport with purchase of hangar". BellMedia. CTV News. 29 October 2019.
  10. "ICAO Designators for Canadian Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services" (PDF). Nav Canada. 2022-10-17. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-02-26. Skyservice Business Aviation: BBA, BOMBARDIER
  11. "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: Quick Search Result for Skyservice Business Aviation". Transport Canada. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
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