Year: 2015

The rapidly expanding sport of first-person-view (FPV) drone racing has landed in Canada. The second Collingwood Nationals race weekend was held Aug. 22-23 on the outskirts of the city, ironically at a local heritage site. […]

The B.C. Coroner’s Service says the captain of a Carson Air Metroliner that crashed just north of Vancouver April 13 had five times the legal driving limit of alcohol in his system. The service said […]

A plan to build new Viking Air Series 400 Twin Otters in Russia has been killed by Russian authorities, citing Western sanctions resulting from tensions in Ukraine. The Moscow Times, quoting RIA Novosti, a Russian […]

The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority has apologized to a Terrace, B.C. man after he was told he couldn’t board his flight because there were no male security screeners on duty to give him a […]

B.C. Premier Christy Clark says governments have to get a handle on keeping unmanned aerial systems from interfering with firefighting efforts. Earlier this week the presence of a small UAS forced the grounding of 13 […]

Comments have now closed for the Notice of Proposed Amendment to the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARS) that will require anyone building or changing an aerodrome to consult with a wide range of local and government […]

Sporting its historically correct livery, PBY Canso CF-UAW took to the air for the first time in several years on August 4 and was able to fly to the Abbotsford International Airshow last weekend. The […]

Transport Canada has revised long-awaited changes to mandatory crew rest requirements to exempt smaller air carriers and that has outraged pilots unions. The department released its proposal in the Canada Gazette last Saturday and it […]

The pilot of a Seair Cessna 208 on floats told authorities he came within 10 feet of a collision with quadcopter last Aug. 1. The pilot reported he was on final for the water runway […]

WestJet pilots have rejected forming a union by a small but decisive margin. In a vote held over the last couple of weeks, 55 percent of the 1,247 who voted rejected the idea. The WestJet […]

Fire officials in Kelowna, B.C. says they’ve spoken with the man who was operating a small unmanned aerial vehicle at a forest fire near the Okanagan city earlier this week. However there’s no word on […]

The Breitling Jet Team, which is an air show staple in Europe, is making its Canadian debut Friday. The team, a seven-ship formation of L-39 Albatros jets, will perform in the Friday night demonstration at […]

Now that the federal election has been called, those hoping to supply Canada with new fighter aircraft are resuming their public relations dogfight. In late July, Lockheed Martin executive VP Orlando Carvalho reiterated his company’s […]

A Russian helicopter pilot stranded on an ice floe in Davis Strait was down to his last flare when he spotted the Canadian Coast Guard ship Pierre Radisson in the fading light and building fog. […]

A Bonnyville, Alberta pathologist has been identified as the lone victim of a crash near Lac La Biche. Dr. Shekar Puttaswamy died when his Cessna 182 went down on Sunday. Puttaswamy’s plane went down about […]