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Month: August 2023

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RCAF Assists in NWT Evacuation Efforts

August 26, 2023 Editor 0

With the mass evacuations from Yellowknife and other communities in the face of advancing wildfires, Canada’s major airlines, including Air Canada and WestJet, laid on extra flights, although they were proving insufficient to meet the […]

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Drone-Flown Contraband Continues Unabated

August 26, 2023 Editor 0

As the novelty of consumer-class drones wears off and the perceived threat to aircraft is seeming to fade, one negative aspect that continues unabated is their use to transport contraband into prisons. The Collins Bay […]

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Pilot of Crashed Helicopter Abandons Injured Passengers

August 19, 2023 Editor 0

In one of the more bizarre aviation news events over the past week, a helicopter pilot crash-landed his four-place Robinson R-44 in a British Columbia river on Saturday, August 12 then ran off, leaving his […]

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Flair Airlines Announces Airline Cadet Training Program

August 19, 2023 Editor 0

In what Flair is calling a first-of-its-kind program in North America, the Edmonton-based ultra-low-cost airline has announced it is partnering with Genesis Flight College of Collingwood, Ontario to recruit and train new pilots from scratch […]

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Kelowna Airspace Closes Due to Wildfires

August 19, 2023 Editor 0

Kelowna airport authorities shut down their airspace on Friday (Aug. 18) to allow firefighting aircraft room to combat wildfires that are in the immediate vicinity. Early morning flights between Victoria and Kelowna were cancelled, initially […]

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ADS-B Mandate Now In Force In Class A Airspace

August 11, 2023 Editor 0

As of August 10, ADS-B OUT equipment using 1090ES technology is required to fly in Canadian Class A airspace (from 18,000 up to but not including 60,000 feet above sea level). ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) […]

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TSB Releases Cessna 150 Bainsville Crash Report

August 11, 2023 Editor 0

The Transportation Safety Board released this week its investigation report into the crash of a 1967 Cessna 150 that occurred the night of December 5, 2022. The pilot was attempting an emergency landing on the […]

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Conair Purchases Seven More Dash-8s For Firefighting Duty

August 11, 2023 Editor 0

The recent purchase of seven De Havilland Dash 8-400 aircraft brings to 18 the number of this aircraft type that Conair has converted, or will be converting, to aerial firefighting tankers. Of the 11 Dash-8s […]

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DDC’s Canary Drone Flying Commercially

August 5, 2023 Editor 0

Earlier this week Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) of Vaughan, Ontario announced the completion of three round trips with their Canary drone in commercial service, transporting cargo to a point over 13 kilometres distant and, in […]

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Ottawa Prefers SkyAlyne Consortium Over Others

August 5, 2023 Editor 0

Ottawa has declared the SkyAlyne consortium, led by Canadian companies KF Aerospace and CAE, as its preferred bidder for the future of flight training for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The SkyAlyne Canada Limited Partnership […]

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AirVenture 2023 By the Numbers

August 5, 2023 Editor 0

Although we weren’t able to cover AirVenture in person this year, we were certainly glued to our computer screens for the daily rundown of events, as we’re sure many of our readers were too. “Oshkosh […]

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