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Canadian civil air navigation system operator

Nav Canada (styled as NAV CANADA) is a privately run, non profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS). It was established by statute in accordance with the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act (ANS Act). The company employs approximately 1,900 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 650 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, It is only allowed to be funded by publicly traded debt and service charges to aircraft operators.

The company began operations on November 1, 1996 when the government sold the country's air navigation services from Transport Canada to the new not for profit private entity for CAD$1.5 billion. A number of solutions were considered, including forming a crown corporation, but rejected in favour of outright privatization, the new company being formed as a non share capital not for profit, run by a board of directors who were initially appointed and now elected. The company expects that the non credit related fair value variances from face value on restructured and non restructured ABCP (amounting cumulatively to $33 at November 30, 2013) will be recovered by the time the notes mature in fiscal year 2017. By fiscal year end 2013, the company's revenues reached $1,231 million, which exceeded its pre recession level and fiscal year 2014 saw further revenue growth to $1,272 million. During the period 2005 15 the company held service charge rates steady.

In the mid 2000s the company decided to address the lack of radar coverage in the Canadian north, especially in the area of Hudson Bay where airliners transition from the North Atlantic Tracks system to Canadian Domestic Airspace by deploying a ground based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS B) network. The five station network was operational on 15 January 2009, filling a gap in radar coverage which allowed reduced separation of airline flights by ADS B tracking over procedural separation. In January 2009, Nav Canada estimated that the ADS B system would save its customers 18 million litres of fuel per year and reduce and equivalent emissions by per year. In November 2010, a second set of six ground based ADS B transceivers was later deployed along the coast of Labrador and Nunavut, providing an additional In March 2012 four more stations were added in Greenland, increasing the area covered by
The joint venture, called Aireon LLC, uses Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS B) receivers installed as an additional payload on 66 Iridium NEXT second generation satellites launched between 2017 and 2019. Nav Canada invested $150 million for a 51% stake in Aireon. The cross linked Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites make it possible, for the first time, to track aircraft from pole to pole, including oceanic airspace and remote regions, facilitating fuel savings, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and enhanced safety and efficiency for airspace users. In December 2013, ANSPs from three additional countries joined Nav Canada as partners in Aireon. Enav of Italy, the Irish Aviation Authority and Denmark's Naviair signed on for a combined investment of $120 million resulting in a new ownership structure for the company with Nav Canada holding 51 per cent, Iridium with 24.5 per cent, Enav at 12.5 per cent and the Irish Aviation Authority and Naviair each holding 6%. In September 2014 Aireon announced plans to offer ALERT (Aircraft Locating and Emergency Response Tracking), a free supplementary service for emergency tracking of aircraft in trouble. Aireon's ADS B receivers on Iridium's satellites will already include ALERT's capabilities and the company has decided to make it available free of charge “as a public service.” Aireon ALERT could be activated by any certified air safety organization to request the last known location and flight path of any aircraft carrying an ADS B transponder, even if the operator does not subscribe to Aireon.

Nav Canada operates a small fleet of aircraft. These aircraft are mainly used for flight inspection of navigation equipment and procedures. As of February 2023, Nav Canada had two Bombardier CRJ 200 registered with Transport Canada and operate as ICAO airline designator NVC, and telephony NAV CAN. Nav Canada previously operated, for the same purposes, two Bombardier Challenger 601 1A and a Bombardier Dash 8 Series 100 inherited from Transport Canada until April 2019.