Year: 2021

Porter Airlines is going Brazilian with a fleet expansion that could include as many as 80 Embraer E195-E2 airliners. Porter, which grew to its current status flying Canadian-built Q400s from its hub at Billy Bishop […]

USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice Award Contest has picked last fall’s groundbreaking Airshow London Skydrive airshow as the best air show in North America for 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic closing virtually every major […]

De Havilland Aircraft and Pratt and Whitney Canada have partnered to build a test bed hybrid commuter aircraft using a legacy Dash-8-100. The companies announced the partnership this week and it’s unique in the world. […]

An analysis of the performance of uAvionix’s tiny ADS-B OUT transmitter in Canadian airspace confirmed that it meets current international standards* and performs very similar to traditional diversity transponders. The study was performed by Capital […]

Operators of certain Bell 212, 204 and 205 helicopters were ordered to inspect the main rotor hub pin straps on each of those aircraft and change them if they have a specified family of serial […]

Bombardier had a good week with a made-in-Canada moment for its flagship Global 7500 and a hefty order for a mix of aircraft to an undisclosed customer. The company, which now builds only business jets, […]

The Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg has announced it will be the new home of a lovingly restored CF-104 Starfighter. The Canadair-built “Widowmaker” will be the centrepiece of the museum’s Military Skies […]

The combination of fatigue, an improperly set throttle and some confusion about the landing conditions the crew of a Sky Lease Boeing 747 faced were cited as contributing factors in a runway overrun that destroyed […]

The District of Sechelt led British Columbia in obtaining provincial government funding to improve its airport infrastructure. The $1,348,108 grant, when combined with a provincial grant from the year before, allowed for the repaving of, […]

Once again, a group of intrepid pilots led by Give Hope Wings founder Dave McElroy have gotten together to plan another cross-country expedition to raise funds for Hope Air, the national charity that raises funds […]

It’s not every day someone witnesses a plane crash but Linda Aboulian sprang into action when a Cessna 185 on floats flipped on the river in front of her house. Aboulian, a candidate in a […]

An RCAF accident report says the pilots of a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter didn’t know the aircraft would fight back when they briefly overrode the flight director on a training flight over the Mediterranean on April […]

The Abbotsford International Airshow was added to the short list of shows scheduled for this year in Canada. Like the London Airshow, which pioneered the concept in 2020, patrons will watch the show from their […]

Dave Curtis, who took a maintenance shop specializing in Beavers and Otters to one of Canada’s largest aircraft manufacturers is retiring as chairman of Longview Aviation Capital, the company that Viking Air grew into. “Dave […]