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Riverview is a town in Albert County , New Brunswick , Canada. Riverview is located on the south side of the Petitcodiac River , across from the larger cities of Moncton and Dieppe . Riverview has an area of 34 square kilometres (13 sq mi), and a population density of 564.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,462/sq mi). Riverview's slogan is "A Great Place To Grow". With a population of 20,584 in 2021,

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29-561: The Dobson Trail is a 57.75 km hiking trail that runs from Riverview, New Brunswick to Fundy National Park . The trail is named for Dr. Art Dobson, who started the initiative to build the trail in 1959. The trail is the longest volunteer-maintained trail in Eastern Canada . Dr. Art Dobson began scouting the trail in 1959, following the standards set out in a publication from the Appalachian Trail conference. Over

58-488: 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's revenue is predominantly from service fees charged to aircraft operators which amount to about CAD$ 1.2B annually. Nav Canada also raises revenues from developing and selling technology and related services to other air navigation service providers around

87-624: A decade Scout troops from Hillsborough , Riverview, Moncton and Alma blazed the trail under Dobson's direction. The trail was originally referred to as "The Fundy Trail," after Fundy National Park, where the trail led. In the 1960s, the Province of New Brunswick established roadways known as the Fundy trails and Fundy National Park. In 1975 the name was changed to the Dobson Trail to avoid confusion with these other trails. The trail connects to

116-432: 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

145-536: A joint venture that offers air traffic control authorities the ability to track aircraft around the globe in real time. 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

174-481: A second set of six ground-based ADS-B transceivers was later deployed along the coast of Labrador and Nunavut , providing an additional 1,980,000 km (760,000 sq mi). In March 2012 four more stations were added in Greenland , increasing the area covered by 1,320,000 km (510,000 sq mi). In 2012, Nav Canada and the satellite communications company Iridium Communications Inc. launched

203-650: A year, 80% of which are either entering or leaving North American airspace. See Media in Greater Moncton See Greater Moncton Transportation There are currently seven schools in Riverview, including one high school, one middle school, and five elementary schools. In December 2011, it was officially announced that a new K-8 school would be constructed in East Riverview that is expected to open for

232-591: Is English, with 90.6% speaking English as a first language and only 7.8% speaking French as a first language. The adjacent cities of Moncton and Dieppe are about 32% and 73% Francophone respectively and have benefited from an ongoing rural depopulation of the Acadian Peninsula and areas in northern and eastern New Brunswick . About 27% of the town population is bilingual and understands both English and French. Riverview has seven main neighbourhoods, each with several smaller subdivisions: The town

261-461: Is headquartered in Ottawa , Ontario . It is only allowed to be funded by publicly traded debt and service charges to aircraft operators. Nav Canada's operations consist of various sites across the country. These include: Nav Canada has three other facilities: As a non-share capital corporation, Nav Canada has no shareholders. The company is governed by a 15-member board of directors representing

290-779: Is served by Ambulance New Brunswick , Riverview Fire & Rescue, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . Hospital services are located in Moncton , New Brunswick. See Moncton Sport Facilities Riverview Sunfest is an annual festival of events to celebrate the incorporation of Riverview as a town and Canada Day . The town is home to one of seven Nav Canada area control centres , Moncton Area Control Centre, serving air traffic over New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island , Nova Scotia and eastern Quebec. The centre controls all air traffic between Europe and Eastern Canada . This centre monitors over 430,000 flights

319-579: The Vancouver Area Control Centre and building a new logistics centre Nav Canada felt the impact of the late-2000s recession in two ways: losses in its investments in third party sponsored asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) and falling revenues due to reduced air traffic levels. In the summer of 2007 the company held $ 368 million in ABCP which had become illiquid. On 12 January 2009 final Ontario Superior Court of Justice approval

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348-599: The 2013 school year. Nav Canada 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

377-606: The 33-kilometre Fundy Trail at Fundy National Park, which in turn connects to the Fundy Footpath . Riverview, New Brunswick Riverview is the largest town in New Brunswick, and despite being designated as a town it is the fifth-largest municipality in the province, being more populous than the cities of Edmundston , Bathurst , Campbellton , and Miramichi . Though the Petitcodiac River

406-495: 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),

435-527: 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. The added surveillance that Aireon will provide will enable air traffic control to significantly reduce the separation standard in oceanic and other unsurveilled airspace from approximately 80 nautical miles (nm) to 15 nm or less. This will allow more aircraft to fly at optimum altitudes and to benefit from

464-455: The four stakeholder groups that founded Nav Canada. The four stakeholders elect 10 members as follows: These 10 directors then elect four independent directors, with no ties to the stakeholder groups. Those 14 directors then appoint the president and chief executive officer who becomes the 15th board member. This structure ensures that the interests of individual stakeholders do not predominate and no member group could exert undue influence over

493-450: 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

522-546: 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

551-557: The prevailing winds such as the jet stream , further saving fuel and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Aireon CEO Don Thoma estimated that this would result in an average fuel savings of $ 400 per flight for the three-and-a-half-hour trip across the North Atlantic. The annual fuel cost savings for airlines in the North Atlantic alone would be on the order of $ 125 million. In December 2013, ANSPs from three additional countries joined Nav Canada as partners in Aireon. Enav of Italy,

580-401: The remainder of the board. To further ensure that the interests of Nav Canada are served, these board members cannot be active employees or members of airlines, unions, or government. 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. The company

609-658: 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,

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638-673: The world. It also has some smaller sources of income, such as conducting maintenance work for other ANS providers and rentals from the Nav Centre in Cornwall, Ontario . To address the old infrastructure it purchased from the Canadian government the company has carried out projects such as implementing a wide area multilateration (WAM) system, replacing 95 Instrument Landing System (ILS) installations with new equipment, new control towers in Toronto , Edmonton and Calgary , modernizing

667-450: Was Anne Seamans who served until her retirement in 2021 . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Riverview had a population of 20,584 living in 8,651 of its 8,797 total private dwellings, a change of 4.7% from its 2016 population of 19,667 . With a land area of 34.1 km (13.2 sq mi), it had a population density of 603.6/km (1,563.4/sq mi) in 2021. Riverview's linguistic majority

696-509: Was a regular transportation corridor for aboriginal peoples, the first known settlements in the area were three Acadian villages in what are now Turtle Creek, Lower Coverdale and Point Park. The French-speaking families were forced to abandon the area in 1758 during the Grand Derangement . Resettlement of what would become Riverview began around 1783 when settlers from Yorkshire , England began to farm there. The Town of Riverview

725-415: Was formed in response to a number of issues with Transport Canada's (TC) operation of air traffic control and air navigation facilities. While TC's safety record and operational staff were rated highly, its infrastructure was old and in need of serious updating at a time of government restraint. This resulted in system delays for airlines and costs that were exceeding the airline ticket tax, a directed tax that

754-402: Was formed on July 9, 1973 with the amalgamation of the three villages of Bridgedale, Gunningsville and Riverview Heights. Harold Findlay became the first mayor and seven councillors were elected at-large to serve a population of 14,177. Since that time, Riverview has grown to include almost 19,130 represented by four ward councillors and three councillors-at-large. Riverview's first female mayor

783-494: Was granted to restructure the third party ABCP notes. 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

812-496: Was operational on 15 January 2009, filling a 850,000 km (330,000 sq mi) 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 CO 2 and equivalent emissions by 50,000 t (110,000,000 lb) per year. In November 2010,

841-467: Was supposed to fund the system. The climate of government wage freezes resulted in staff shortages of air traffic controllers that were hard to address within a government department. Having TC as the service provider, the regulator and inspector was a conflict of interest. Pressure from the airlines on the government mounted for a solution to the problem that was hurting the air industry's bottom line. A number of solutions were considered, including forming

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