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Nav Canada is a privately run, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS). It was established in accordance with the ''Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act'' (ANS Act). The company employs approximately 1,900 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 650〔Nav Canada, (Nav Canada at a Glance - Who we are ), retrieved 27 January 2015〕 flight service specialists (FSSs) and 700 technologists. It has been responsible for the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic in Canadian airspace since November 1, 1996 when the government transferred the ANS from Transport Canada to Nav Canada. As part of the transfer, or privatization, Nav Canada paid the government CA$1.5 billion. Nav Canada manages 12 million aircraft movements a year for 40,000 customers in over 18 million square kilometres, making it the world’s second-largest air navigation service provider (ANSP) by traffic volume. Nav Canada, which operates independently of any government funding,〔 is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.〔"(Contact Us )." Nav Canada. Retrieved on December 31, 2010. "Address - Head Office: 77 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, ON K1P 5L6" - (Address in French ): "Adresse du siège social: 77, rue Metcalfe Ottawa (Ontario) K1P 5L6."〕 It is only allowed to be funded by publicly traded debt and service charges to aircraft operators. ==Facilities== Nav Canada's operations consist of various sites across the country. These include: *About 1,400 ground-based navigation aids *55 flight service stations *8 flight information centres,〔 one each in: * * Kamloops - most of British Columbia * * Edmonton - all of Alberta and northeastern BC * * Winnipeg - northwestern Ontario, all of Manitoba and Saskatchewan * * London - most of Ontario * * North Bay - all of Nunavut and Northwest Territories, most of the Arctic waters * * Quebec City - all of Quebec, south western Labrador, tip of eastern Ontario, northern New Brunswick * * Halifax - most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and most of Newfoundland and Labrador * * Whitehorse - northwestern British Columbia and all of Yukon *41 control towers〔 *46 radar sites and 15 automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ground sites〔Nav Canada, (Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) ), retrieved 18 February 2015〕 *7 Area Control Centres,〔 one each in: * * Vancouver (CZVR) - Surrey, BC * * Edmonton (CZEG) - Edmonton International Airport * * Winnipeg (CZWG) - Winnipeg International Airport * * Toronto Centre (CZYZ) - Toronto Pearson International Airport * * Montreal Centre (CZUL) - Montreal International Airport * * Moncton (CZQM) - Moncton International Airport * * Gander (CZQX) - Gander International Airport *North Atlantic Oceanic control centre: Gander Control Nav Canada has three other facilities: *National Operations Centre: Ottawa (77 Metcalfe Street) *Technical Systems Centre: Ottawa (280 Hunt Club Road) *The Nav Centre (formerly the Nav Canada Training and Conference Centre) - 1950 Montreal Road in Cornwall, Ontario〔http://www.ourhometown.ca/Business/BP0002.php〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nav Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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