Year: 2016

The Canadian Ninety-Nines have awarded their Canadian Award in Aviation to the Saskatchewan Aviation Historical Society Inc., located at John G. Diefenbaker International Airport in Saskatoon. The group will use the $2,000 award “to enhance […]

The Transportation Safety Board says it will hold aviation authorities and agencies to account for ignoring its recommendations in a new proactive stance that will undoubtedly make some waves. Chair Kathy Fox said in a […]

The Transportation Safety Board has renewed calls for collision avoidance systems for light aircraft after a highly publicized mid-air collision near Fort McMurray in June, 2015. Video of the Cessna 185 floatplane involved in the […]

Authorities are investigating why a British Airways A380 diverted more than 1,000 miles to Vancouver on Monday night and the entire crew left 400 puzzled passengers in the aircraft while they checked in at hospitals. […]

On the tenth anniversary of its disruptive entry to the Central Canada airline market, Porter Airlines is looking at modest growth with an emphasis on existing markets. By now, CEO Robert Deluce had hoped to […]

That beautiful photo of the Snowbirds, Breitling Jet Team and the Canadian Forces CF-18 demo plane flying in formation over Lake Ontario that we featured last week had an error in the accompanying story. The […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has asked his senior staff to investigate making cockpit voice and flight data recorders mandatory in unspecified aircraft that are not now required to have them. “I think that it’s a […]

It was 1937 when Hanna Reitsch took the controls of a Focke-Achgelis 61 helicopter and became the world’s first female helicopter pilot. In celebration, the theme for the seventh annual Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, […]

The RCAF CF-18 demo team, the Snowbirds and the Breitling Jet Team represent perhaps the epitome of formation aerobatics skill and grace so what happens when they pool their talents? Photographer Ken Lin got a […]

On Nov. 8, Hope Air will celebrate 30 years of helping medical patients in small and isolated communities get the care they need by organizing flights for them. “Countless people have had a hand in […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has asked his senior staff to investigate making cockpit voice and flight data recorders mandatory in unspecified aircraft that are not now required to have them. “I think that it’s a […]

Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal has ruled against a plan to build eight wind turbines within the operations area of two southern Ontario airports. The tribunal, which was the last jurisdiction that could prevent the project, […]

Seven women with distinguished or burgeoning careers in aviation were honoured at the eighth Elsie MacGill Northern Lights Award gala in Vaughan, near Toronto. Sponsored by Porter Airlines, the evening began with keynote speech by […]

A Waterloo aviation enthusiast has tracked down an airframe in Nanaimo that was significant in his youth in Pakistan. Now Sameer Haqqi is hoping the local aviation comunity will help him restore the stripped shell […]

A young Saskatchewan pilot is the first Canadian recipient of the Ben Wiplinger Memorial Seaplane Rating Scholarship. Colin Fink is just out of high school but is already building time on a Cessna 170 to […]