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Month: August 2019
Recent Videos
Last of Canada’s ‘Few’ Remembered
John Hart, the last surviving Canadian Battle of Britain pilot died recently at the age of 102. He celebrated his 100th birthday with a flight in a Harvard in 2016.
News
NOTAM Format Changing
Nav Canada will radically change the format of NOTAMs on Oct.10 as it moves to the standardized ICAO format. In a news release, the company said the ICAO format is used by most countries and […]
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Campaign Aids Family of Pilot
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the family of a well-known commercial operator who died saving his family from a floatplane crash in an Ontario Lake. Jeff Mavor, owner of Lake Country Airways […]
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Last Canadian Battle of Britain Pilot Dies
Canada’s last surviving Battle of Britain pilot John Hart has died at the age of 102. Hart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for a combat career that started in Spitfires in the famous air […]
Recent Videos
Red Arrows At Gatineau
Nice raw video from Blair Burns of the British team’s first Canadian show.
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Canadian Aerospace Icon Dies
Bruce Aikenhead, a towering figure in Canadian aerospace whose quiet nature kept him mostly out of the limelight, died in Salmon Arm B.C. last week. He was 95. Aikenhead, who was an Officer of the […]
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Air Canada Announces A220 Routes
Air Canada will inaugurate Airbus A220 service with new routes from Montreal to Seattle and Toronto to San Jose. The new routes will commence May 4, 2020. The airline has ordered 45 A220-300s and will […]
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EDC Admits Fault In Gupta Plane Loan
Export Development Canada has now said it was a mistake to lend $41 million to a couple of notorious brothers at the centre of a major South African corruption scandal to buy a new Bombardier […]
TSB Incidents
Cessna 185 E floatplane – Landing Issue – Flipped – Pilot Killed
2019-08-04 C-GBUI, a private Cessna 185 E floatplane, was operating a flight from Orillia airport (CNV6) to Upper Raft Lake, approximately 48 nm north of CNV6 with the pilot and six passengers on board. During […]
TSB Incidents
Jazz Aviation – DHC-8-300 – Landing Gear Issue
2019-08-02 C-GTAT, a De Havilland DHC-8-300 aircraft operated by Jazz Aviation LP, was conducting flight JZA8734 from Montreal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intl (CYUL), QC to Iles-de-la-Madeleine (CYGR), QC. When the crew extended the gear for landing, […]
TSB Incidents
Jazz Aviation – DHC-8-300 – Hyddraulic Leak – Emergency
2019-07-29 C-FACF, a De Havilland DHC-8-300 operated by Jazz Aviation LP as flight JZA697 with 3 crew members and 42 passengers on board was on the initial climb out of Sept-îles (CYZV) QUE when the […]
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DND Explains Recon Plane’s Price Hike
The Department of National Defence says it’s paying almost double the sticker price on three surveillance aircraft because it ordered improvements on the original design. In a statement to the Ottawa Citizen, DND said it’s […]
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A220 Production Starts In Mobile
Airbus has started making A220s in Mobile, Alabama as the Bombardier-developed former CSeries airliner gains traction in orders and popularity with passengers and crews. The Mobile plant will build A220s destined for the U.S. market, […]
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Drone Conflicts Increase
An increase in the number of conflicts between manned aircraft and drones has been recorded this year. There were 85 that met Transport Canada’s definition of a reportable incident in that they posed “a risk […]