Month: September 2015

Aviation doesn’t often come up in election campaigns but NDP leader Thomas Mulcair broke that mold with a major announcement in Montreal on Tuesday. Mulcair pledged to create a $160 million fund to help small […]

The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association sent a 17-page response to Transport Canada’s proposal to allow more public input into aviation-related construction projects. TC’s Notice of Proposed Amendment to the regulations follows the lead of […]

The bright yellow airport terminal at Iqualuit will be replaced by a modern facility as part of a $300 million airport expansion project by 2017 but the project suffered a setback on Saturday. The contractor […]

Online shopping site Shop.ca says it has partnered with Drone Delivery Canada to pioneer small package delivery by drone in Canada. There are, of course, some regulatory hoops for the project to get through but […]

There’s a week left to comment on Transport Canada’s latest stab at mandating 406 MHz ELTs in Canadian aircraft. The comment period for the Notice of Proposed Amendment ends Sept. 11 and comments must be […]

Military investigators are looking into a runway excursion at CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia that left a CP-140 Aurora heavily damaged. None of the 17 RCAF personnel aboard the aircraft were injured in the mishap, which […]

Ken McKenzie, WestJet’s former executive vice president of operations, is in hospital in Florida after the Lancair he was flying went down in the Everglades last Sunday. Ken McKenzie, who left WestJet in 2009 to […]

The RCAF Snowbirds hit a milestone most air demonstration teams only dream about Aug. 29. The team celebrated its 2500th performance since its inception in 1971. The milestone show occurred at Drummondville, Quebec. The team’s […]

Zhuoyang (David) Shi, from Moncton Flight Centre is Canada’s Top Amateur Pilot for 2015 Shi, who represented the Atlantic provinces, won the John C. Webster Trophy Competition last week in the annual competition. Runner up […]