Month: March 2017

KF Aerospace will hire 90 employees in coming months to cover a major expansion in its maintenance and cargo conversion business. The company has signed a deal with Aeronautical Engineers Inc. which holds the engineering […]

Vintage Wings of Canada is selling Hawk One, its Canadair MK-V Sabre that has been used as an air demonstration aircraft since 2009. The airplane was originally restored as a tribute to the centennial of […]

Canadian volunteers staged 17 events in the annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week in early March as part of a global effort to expose women to aviation. A total of 53,000 girls and women at […]

Authorities are now calling the mysterious crash of a pilotless Cessna 172 in Northern Ontario a suspected suicide. The University of Michigan, which owned the aircraft, issued a statement Wednesday saying the ghost flight and […]

The Sunwing pilot who passed out in the cockpit of the Boeing 737  he was supposed to command to Mexico last New Year’s Eve has pleaded guilty to having care and control of an aircraft while […]

Investigators in Montreal say air traffic control tapes show one of the pilots involved in a midair collision last Friday didn’t respond to at least four attempts by ATC to raise him on the radio. […]

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame has named John Gillespie Magee Jr. as its Honorary Poet. Magee was a 19-year-old RCAF Spitfire pilot in 1941 when he penned “High Flight,” an oft-spoken sonnet that has become […]

Seven replica biplanes of the type flown by Canadian pilots over the Battle of Vimy Ridge 100 years ago were to be in France Thursday as Canada gets ready to mark a turning point in […]

A father and son team from Ontario will fly a state-of-the-art Bell 429 helicopter around the world starting July 1. Bob Dengler and his son Steven announced the flight Wednesday and said it will be […]

A GoFundMe campaign launched two weeks ago to benefit an injured Victoria flight instructor has reached almost a quarter of its goal. The online fundraiser for Kristen Ursel totalled $23,000 by Wednesday with a goal […]

An iconic DC-3 will become the oldest aircraft to fly around the world this year and it will make a stop in Toronto Breitling’s DC-3 is 77 years old and took off from Geneva March […]

A Prescott, Ontario woman has become the youngest female Boeing 737 pilot in Canada after she took the right seat of a Sunwing aircraft earlier this year at just 22. Siobhan O’Hanlon was among a […]

WestJet stepped up immediately to pay for repairs to a Calgary couple’s home that was hit by toilet ice earlier this week. The chunk of ice went through the roof, ceiling and ended up in […]

Two stranded Nunavut hunters defied incredible odds by catching the attention of a crew member aboard an RCAF aircraft that just happened to be flying overhead. Tyler Amarualik and 15-year-old Eugene Gibbons were with Lloyd […]