{"id":125789,"date":"2024-09-13T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/history-viking-air\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:00:12","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-unique-history-of-viking-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=125789","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look At The Unique History Of Viking Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viking Air Ltd. was an operator and manufacturer of aircraft, parts and systems based at <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/victoria-international-airport\/\">Victoria International Airport<\/a> in North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. They provided upgrades to the DHC-2 Beaver and DC-6 Twin Otter and supplied parts for the old <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/de-havilland\/\">de Havilland<\/a> Canada aircraft as well as making components for Bell Helicopter Textron. The company became a subsidiary of De Havilland Canada before being merged again in August 2024. Let&#8217;s find out more about this unique company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategic investments and clever planning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1909,1298,10845,1472,408,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-manufacturers","category-de-havilland-canada","category-dhc-dash-8","category-general-aviation","category-history","category-private-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125790,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125789\/revisions\/125790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}