Year: 2019

West Wind Aviation has joined the community of Fond du Lac in northern Saskatchewan in calling for major runway improvements at the local airport to handle increased demand for air service. A West Wind ATR […]

Airbus says it can’t afford to meet the bid requirements to supply the RCAF’s new fighter jets so it is withdrawing from the bid process. Airbus, which was offering its Typhoon, said the cost of […]

The first delivery of prescription drugs by drone took place on Salt Spring Island on Aug. 19 as part of Transport Canada’s drone trials and by all accounts it was a success. Indro Robotics, which […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]