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Filip Kurlowicz

Flight Date: August 20, 2013 Flight School: Harv’s Air Service Flight Instructor: Manas Shukla Message: It was a calm day for flying, and an ideal day for my first solo flight. Being up in the air alone made […]

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Mark Peters

Flight Date: September 3, 2013 Flight School: Canadian Flight Academy Flight Instructor: Dan Niro Message: Totally awesome!

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Rick Champagne

Flight Date: November 23, 2013 Flight School: Rockliffe Flying Club Flight Instructor: Mike Lamb Message:My first Solo Flight was very special in more ways than one. It was first and foremost the realization of a boyhood dream. […]

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Mathias Veit

Flight Date: April 22, 2011 Flight School: Cargair Ltée Flight Instructor: Olivier Giuntini Message:Since my first Solo, my life was never the same again. I fulfill my dream to fly after 20 years be able only dreaming […]

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Jean-Guy Quinn

Flight Date: June 21, 2012 Flight School: Aviation DM Flight Instructor: Andre Morin Message:Magic

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industry

Field Aviation Gets Boeing Contract

Field Aviation Selected as Aircraft Modifier and Integrator on Boeing’s Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Program   CINCINNATI, OHIO November 18, 2013   Field Aviation, a leading international aerospace company renowned for its expertise in the modification […]

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incidents

Pilot Killed in Lloydminster Crash

Dec. 14/13-The privately registered Cessna P210N, C-FCPK, was departing Lloydminster, AB (CYLL) on an IFR flight for High River, AB (CEN4). Shortly after departure, the aircraft collided with terrain 1.6 nm northeast of CYLL. The […]

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Two Killed in Vancouver Island Crash

Dec. 12/13-A privately registered Cessna 421B, C-GFMX, with 2 POB was en route from Abbotsford, BC to Torino, BC under IFR. The aircraft was lost on ATC radar in the vicinity of Tofino. A search […]

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News

Rafale in the Fight

Rafale in the Fight RCAF Commander Lieut. Gen. Yvan Blondin got a first-hand look at one of the contenders for Canada’s new fighter when he got a ride in a Dassault RAFALE during a joint […]

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WestJet and Disney Pair Up

In early December, WestJet and Walt Disney World unveiled a flying mural for the Orlando theme park that is the foundation of an extended partnership between the two. WestJet and Disney have partnered on vacation […]

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Air Canada Gets First 787 In March

Air Canada will get the first of 37 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in March but while the aircraft is mainly designed for medium and long-haul routes, passengers on milk runs between Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto will […]

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incidents

Student Leaves Runway

Nov. 26/13-The student-pilot of the Cessna 152, registration C-GAUB, was in the circuit for touch and go’s on runway 24L at CYHU Montreal/St-Hubert airport. This was the student’s fourth solo flight. Upon touching down on […]

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Stick Shaker Activated

Dec. 1/13-The DHC8-400, registration C-FSRJ, operated by Sky Regional Airlines as flight AC7512 was on final approach runway 24L at Montreal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intl airport when the aircraft encountered a significant wind shift which resulted […]

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Hadfield Hits Talk Show Circuit

Retired astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield entertained and informed a Hollywood audience on late-night television Monday as he matched veteran host Conan O’Brien joke for joke and double entendre for double entendre during a refreshingly civilized […]