Year: 2016

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says a Canadian pilot who died in a crash at Nashville International Airport was possibly drinking on board and didn’t have the training to land his Cessna 172 in […]

Hamilton Police say an aircraft clipped a car near Stoney Creek Airport last Sunday. Staff Sgt. Gary Heron said the car was traveling Highland Rd. at the south end of the airport. “The landing gear […]

Canadian Aviation Pride and the U.S.-based National Gay Pilots Association will hold a networking and commercial event in Toronto June 4-5. Northern Escape will involve exhibitors such as airlines, flight schools and other services and […]

Peterborough-based Flying Colours is spending $20 million to build a 100,000 square foot hangar at Peterborough Airport. The company will put up $14 million and $4.87 million will come from FedDev Ontario and the government […]

Zenair, of Midland, Ontario, has announced an arrangement with M-Squared Aircraft, of Mobile, Alabama, to resume production of factory-built STOL CH 750 Light Sport aircraft. The aircraft was in production until 2008 when the company […]

Your Nav Canada annual bill will drop by almost four percent next year under a budget adjustment proposed by the corporation last week. Nav Canada says the reduction is a temporary one and will only […]

Latvian flag carrier and Bombardier loyalist Air Baltic has converted the seven remaining options on its 20-ship order for CS300 aircraft. Air Baltic is the launch customer for the 160-seat version of the airliner and […]

After an election promise from then-candidate Justin Trudeau to eliminate the F-35 as a possible replacement for the RCAF’s CF-18s, the controversial platform appears to be back in the running and getting a serious second […]

The last E model Hercules was retired Tuesday. The RCAF’s last flying CC-130E was flown from CFB Trenton to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa on Tuesday. The aircraft, tail number 07, was […]

A $1 billion class action lawsuit has been launched on behalf of hundreds of workers who lost their jobs in 2012 when Air Canada folded its maintenance division Aveos. The suit, filed in Quebec Superior […]

Air Canada says it will use about 400,000 litres of jet fuel made from plant material as part of Canadian initiative to field test the fuel. The fuel will be blended with regular jet fuel […]

A 19-year-old Chinese woman who lost her legs in an earthquake got a chance to live her dream thanks to Imperial Canadian Flight School in Pitt Meadows, B.C. Huang Meihua was injured when her school […]

Start-up travel company New Leaf will start booking flights again shortly after the Canadian Transportation Agency determined that it’s not an airline and therefore doesn’t need an air carrier licence. Passengers are unlikely to be […]

The London Jet Aircraft Museum in London, Ontario will soon take delivery of an ex-RAF Hunter Hawker fighter-bomber. Museum volunteers simon Pont, his wife Laura and Graham Rawlinson bought the recently-retired aircraft at an auction […]