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Air Canada Picks Up 787 Saturday

Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu and 50 employees who won an internal contest will be on hand in Everett, Washington to take deliver the company’s first Boeing 787. The aircraft was ordered nine years ago […]

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CSeries Adds Orders, Flight Tests Progress

Bombardier’s CSeries flight test program moved to the relative anonymity of Wichita, Kansas for the winter and engineers got some work done in the somewhat better weather offered there. The fourth flight test aircraft is […]

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FltPlan.com Offers Digital CFS, VNCs

FltPlan.com has worked out a deal with Nav Canada to offer free digital copies of the Canadian Flight Supplement and visual navigation charts (VNCs). The new offerings are timed to coincide with the busy summer […]

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Bell to Win Second Coast Guard Heli Bid

It appears Bell Helicopters Canada is a shoo-in to win a second Coast Guard helicopter contract because other manufacturers won’t be submitting bids. According to the Canadian Press, the Bell 412 is likely to be the next […]

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Heli Pilots Losing Jobs to Foreign Pilots

Canadian helicopter pilots are complaining they’re being unfairly replaced by temporary foreign workers by companies looking to save wage expenses. Last week the federal government stopped restaurants from hiring foreign nationals on temporary work permits […]

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Lancaster Transatlantic Seat Up For Bids

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum is auctioning off a seat on the upcoming transatlantic flight of its precious Lancaster bomber and museum CEO David Rohrer is convinced there’s someone with the desire and the money needed to satisfy […]

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Spring Training Ridealong

The CF-18 tucks into the slot with the Snowbirds during Spring Training in Comox.   Click on photo to see a gallery of 24 images of the two teams shot from a CF-18 chase plane. […]

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First Canadian IMC Club in Calgary

Pilot’s group that promotes IFR currency and proficiency and general flying excellence will open its first chapter in Canada May 7 and the founder is hoping there will be more. The IMC Club began just three […]

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Lear Touches Wing On Landing

April 24/14-The Air Tindi Ltd Learjet 35A, C-GXCB, was operating as flight DA 351 from Yellowknife, NT (CYZF) to Cambridge Bay, NU (CYCB). While landing on Runway 31 at CYCB, the right wing suddenly dropped. […]

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Helicopter Rolls Over On Landing

April 23/14-C-FHSJ, a Robinson R-44 II helicopter, departed from a private residence in Queensville, Ontario for a local flight with the pilot and two passengers on board. During a landing in a marshy area of […]

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A380 Hits Bridge At Pearson

April 16/2014-The Emirates Airbus A380-861 (A6-EDZ) was operating as UAE241 from Dubai Intl, United Arab Emirates (OMDB) to Toronto LBPIA (CYYZ). After landing at Toronto the aircraft taxied to gate 175A. During positioning at the […]

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SkyRider Canadian Distributor Announced

An Ontario insurance broker is the Canadian, U.S. and Indian distributor for SkyRider, a new two-place helicopter designed in Italy. Bill Davidson says the aircraft is destined to “take over the training for helicopters,” because […]

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Drone Videographer Criticizes Critics

The owner of the YouTube channel that features a controversial video of an airliner on approach to Vancouver International Airport has criticized public and media response to his video, saying there was never any danger […]

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Suit Launched in Hang Gliding Death

Three groups representing hang glider and paraglider pilots in British Columbia and across the country have been named in a lawsuit resulting from the death of young woman who fell from a tandem hang glider […]