Month: December 2023

In what is considered to be the excellent execution of a rescue operation, the two-person crew and eight passengers of a chartered Air Tindi Twin Otter were recovered after their aircraft crashed into terrain short […]

  In an op-ed published in the Globe and Mail on Wednesday (Dec. 27), Harvard professor Jeffrey Frankel suggests that the FAA is ill-served to provide air traffic control services in the United States. Frankel […]

Bombardier was presented with a most welcome Christmas gift in the form of an order for 12 Challenger 3500 aircraft, valued at U$326.4 million. A much-improved version of its predecessor, the Challenger 350, the 3500 […]

CubCrafters of Yakima, Washington delivered its 1000th aircraft to Bridger Aerospace of Belgrade, Montana. Bridger operates, among other aircraft, a fleet of six Canadair CL-415 ‘Super-Scooper’ turboprop aerial tanker fire-fighting aircraft and four piston-powered CL-215s. […]

  The government of Canada made simultaneous announcements on both the East and West Coast earlier this week that it has entered into a contract with U.S. manufacturer General Atomics for the purchase of a […]

According to a story published this week in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, the federal government received reports prior to the decision to sole-source the CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft replacement to Boeing for the P-8A […]

October 11, 2023, was an important date in the long and storied career of the de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo, for this was the last trip of what served as a workhorse for the RCAF […]

Draganfly, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has been nominated in eight different categories for awards by The Droning Company of the U.S., which serves as a clearing house for those looking for the services of a drone […]

Pratt & Whitney Canada, owned by RTX (formerly known as the Raytheon Technologies Corporation), marks 60 years of producing the PT6 families of aircraft turbine engines. During the design’s lifetime, more than 64 thousand of […]

  Defence minister Bill Blair announced this week the establishment of the Canadian Military Colleges Review Board and named the five “external education and culture experts” and the two Department of National Defence-employed members who […]

By deploying a drone equipped for thermal imaging, North Bay police were able to track an alleged criminal trying to evade police by running through a forest. It was at 5 am that a patrolman […]

This is probably no longer news for Van’s aircraft builders and owners, but it was announced this week that Van’s Aircraft has entered into what in the U.S. refers to as Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. […]

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Canadian non-partisan think-tank, has published a paper written by US Navy Lieutenant-Commander Cam Kovarek on the merits of using Lighter Than Air aircraft (LTAs) to secure the Arctic for both the […]

The Canada Infrastructure Development Bank (CIB) announced this week that it has reached an agreement with northern Manitoba’s Thompson Regional Airport Authority (TRAA) to lend it $52 million for the redevelopment of the airport, including […]

The RCAF CC-150 Polaris aircraft that was involved in a collision with a French air force Airbus A400M in Guam last July after the un-chocked Polaris rolled into it (see 2023-09-16 Weekly Update) will be […]