Month: August 2016

The mentally ill young man who died in a plane crash in Peterborough last week had never taken any flight training and that’s raising multiple questions about airport security and the response by authorities. Mohammad […]

Aviatech Products, of Alma, Quebec,  in partnership with the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, has announced a technically improved version of the Super Cyclone kit aircraft it’s been building for several years. The new kit, […]

Swiss International Airlines says its new CSeries aircraft are performing better than some other aircraft in their entry to service. The first CSeries revenue flight was on July 15 and although there have been some […]

Some isolated B.C. communities say they’re stuck in the middle of a bureaucratic tussle between Transport Canada and Helijet Airways that is threatening the health of their residents. Residents of Texada Island, west of Powell […]

The RCAF will lend major support to an aerial tribute to one of the most important battles in Canadian military history. The Air Force has agreed to load six replica First World War fighters on […]

Helijet has suspended air ambulance service to seven hospitals in the heavily populated Lower Mainland of B.C. and the Vancouver Island city of Nanaimo over a paperwork issue with its helicopters. Transport Canada told Helijet […]

The Transportation Safety Board has determined that a Conair Air Tractor Fire Boss air tanker was caught up in a “fire whirl” before it went down near Cold Lake, Alberta, in 2015. The TSB said […]

It appears Air Canada’s bid to blunt competition from WestJet with a spinoff budget carrier has paid off. Air Canada Rouge has grown by 31 percent in the last year and is ten times the […]

For the first time, the Lockheed Martin F-35 will fly against the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet in Canada even if the only thing at stake is pleasing an air show crowd. Both aircraft will perform […]

Transport Canada has no plans to follow the U.S. in relaxing medical requirements for private pilots. And by extension that means American pilots who let their medicals lapse under the new rules will not be […]

On the heels of a terrible accident in the U.S., Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has issued a statement saying it continues to be concerned about charter balloon safety in Canada. TSB Chair Kathy Fox said […]