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incidents

King Air Gear Up Landing

May 25/13-The Win Win Aviation Beechcraft B90 aircraft (N32BA) was operating under a Canadian Foreign Air Operator Certificate (Foreign Trade Agreement) for Skydive Gananoque. The sole occupant, a Canadian commercially licensed pilot, was performing circuits […]

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Porter Q400 Tail Scrape

May 26/13-Porter Airlines flight 689, a de Havilland DHC-8-400 aircraft (C-GLQO), was on a visual short final approach to Sault Ste. Marie’s Airport (CYAM) Runway 30 when power was reduced to correct the descent profile. […]

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Meet the Pilots at Waterloo

The closest most air show attendees get to meeting an air show performer is at the autograph booth but the Waterloo Air Show has added a unique outreach program this year. Community outreach is part […]

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One Dead In Beaver Crash

May 21/13-At about 1700 PDT, hunters travelling southwest-bound from Bute Inlet to Vancouver Bay (west side of Stuart Island) spotted a pair of aircraft floats upside down in the water in Vancouver Bay (Campbell River, […]

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Helicopter Upset

May 19/13-An Aurora Helicopters Ltd. (operating as Wood Buffalo Helicopters) AS350-B2 (C-GYWB) was landing on a site at the edge of muskeg approximately 45 nm NW of Fort McMurray, AB airport (CYMM). The pilot landed […]

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News

Maverick Flying Car Crashes in B.C.

A Maverick flying car, which is really just a large powered parachute with street legal chassis, crashed in a schoolyard in Vernon, B.C. Friday morning, moments before Canadian Aviator Editor Russ Niles was to take […]

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Abbotsford AirShow (Aug 9,10,11)

The Abbotsford International Airshow is an aviation festival that has grown well beyond its borders over the past 5 decades.  With a role from very early on as a significant stop on the ‘Airshow Circuit,’ Abbotsford […]

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News

Toronto Studies Porter Expansion

Toronto City Council voted in favour of getting staff to analyze Porter Airlines’s proposed operation of Bombardier CSeries jets from Billy Bishop Airport. Porter Airlines is hoping to fly Bombardier CSeries jets from Billy Bishop […]

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FLYHT Gets Military Contract

FLYHT Receives Order for Seven AFIRS 228 Systems for Middle East C-130 Military Transport Aircraft CALGARY, ALBERTA, May 7, 2013… FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd.  has received a purchase order from a major avionics integrator for […]

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industry

Mechtronix Sims In Australia

Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) Works with Mechtronix to Expand MPL Training Delivery for Major Airlines   Montreal, May 7th 2013 – Cadet pilots from several major Australian airlines will soon be able to start training on a […]

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industry

Bombardier Expands Maintenance

Bombardier Expands Maintenance Capacity for Commercial Aircraft at its Largest Service Centre in Tucson, Arizona Three new lines of maintenance for Q400 and Q400 NextGen turboprops are now open to support long-term agreements with North […]

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incidents

Vintage Wings Cornell Damaged

May 2/13-The Fairchild Fleet Cornell aircraft, registered CF-YQR, owned by Vintage Wings of Canada took off from Gatineau airport for a VFR local flight. The crew was practicing a forced landing when, following a missed […]

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Runaway Plane Hits Cadet

May 4/13-The Beech Sierra B24R aircraft, C-GFPI, was on the ramp at Iroquois Falls Airport (CNE4) with the owner on board. The owner was intending to crank the engine but not to start it. As […]

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incidents

Runway Conflict At CYUL

May 3/13-An operating irregularity occured when the CRJ-800, flight AWI3625 destined for Philadelphia USA, operated by Air Wisconsin was authorised to take-off while an inspection vehicle was on the runway doing an inspection. The vehicle […]

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Wind Upends Fleet Canuck

May 4/13-The privately owned Fleet Canuck 80X, C-FEBP, landed and was backtracking on the runway at Welland, Ont (CNQ3) when a gust of wind lifted the tail and the nose pitched down allowing the propeller […]