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Flying Colours Honoured by Bombardier

Peterborough-based Flying Colours has been named an authorized service facility for Bombardier Global 5000 and Global 6000 business aircraft. Bombardier gave the MRO and completions specialist “heavy” status to enable it to work on the […]

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Kickstarter Campaign For Lanc

The Alberta Aviation Museum has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise almost $90,000 to restore an historic Lancaster to running condition. The aircraft, one of 430 Lancs built at Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ontario toward […]

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Keystone Air Grounded

Transport Canada has suspended the operating licence of Winnipeg-based Keystone Air over safety concerns. “This is a severe action that the department only takes when we identify serious safety deficiencies and must act to protect […]

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Justin Serrano

Flight Date:11/14/2015 Flight School: Mitchinson Flight Centre Flight Instructor: Tyler Adams Comment: Congratulations on your first solo Justin.

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Mason Voinorosky

Flight Date:11/11/2015 Flight School: Mitchinson Flight Centre Flight Instructor: Randy Kerney Comment: Congratulations on your first solo Mason.

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Theoren Ring

Flight Date:10/29/2015 Flight School: Mitchinson Flight Centre Flight Instructor: Matt Kirzinger Comment: Congratulations on your first solo Theoren.

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Firm Hopeful For F-35 Work

A Montreal company that makes landing gear components isn’t giving up on getting work from the F-35. Heroux-Devtek makes gear for a wide variety of aircraft and is in line for millions of dollars worth […]

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Keystone Air Grounded

Transport Canada has suspended the operating licence of Winnipeg-based Keystone Air over safety concerns. “This is a severe action that the department only takes when we identify serious safety deficiencies and must act to protect […]

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CSeries Certification Soon, MRJ Flies

Bombardier announced earlier this week that it expected certification of its CS100 airliner by the end of the year. It was welcome good news after a public relations shellacking over the past few weeks concerning […]

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Volunteers Complete B-25 Restoration

The Alberta Aviation Museum now has a faithfully restored B-25 Mitchell bomber thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. The group took a rusting hulk from a rural property near Lamont, Alta. […]

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Scrapping F-35 On Hold

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reportedly hold off on executing one of his key election campaign promises until after he’s checked with U.S. President Barack Obama. Trudeau promised to immediately re-open bidding for the replacement […]

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Learjet 85 Canceled

Bombardier’s state-of-the-art Learjet 85 business jet is the latest casualty of the planemaker’s financial problems. The company officially cancelled the mostly-composite mid-sized jet program last week before it got a $1 billion cash injection from […]

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SAM For Sale

Montreal aircraft designer Thierry Zibi says he’s fire saling the assets of his SAM Aircraft to fund another venture. The tenacious entrepreneur, who abandoned his successful corporate life in France, to live his dream as […]

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Two Fatal Helicopter Crashes

The Transportation Safety Board is investigating two fatal helicopter crashes in Saskatchewan last week. Icing may have been to blame for the crash of a helicopter (type unknown) that went down near Kinley, Sask. Oct. […]

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Quebec Bailout For Bombardier

As we reported two weeks ago, the Quebec government will bail out Bombardier’s CSeries airliner program with an infusion of at least $1 billion. Multiple sources are reporting the announcement will come Thursday before Bombardier […]