Morningstar Air Express

Morningstar Air Express Inc. is a cargo airline based at Edmonton International Airport in Alberta, Canada. The company flies scheduled all-cargo services across Canada for FedEx Canada. It also operates ACMI services and provides third party aircraft maintenance.

The fleet includes nine Boeing 757-200 aircraft, four Cessna 208B aircraft, four Cessna 408 Sky Courier aircraft, and four ATR 72 aircraft. The site says the company has more than 300 maintenance, flight operations, and administrative staff across Canada.

The company was founded in 1970 as Brooker Wheaton Aviation Ltd. by two Edmonton businessmen. The early business included aircraft sales, service, parts, fuel sales, and a fixed base operation. In the 1980s it began flying for courier companies and a Boeing 727 contract for FedEx Canada. In the early 1990s it was renamed Morningstar Air Express.

The site says the company is an Approved Maintenance Organization. It works on Aerospatiale, Airbus, Boeing, and Cessna aircraft types. Its maintenance services include line maintenance and third party work at several bases across Canada.

The head office is at 3759 60 Avenue E, Edmonton International Airport, Alberta T9E 0V4. The phone number is 1-780-453-3022. The site also lists a fax number and shipping addresses for its other Canadian locations. It has pages for flight crew and employment openings.