Year: 2023

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The RCAF has released its report into the crash of a CH149 Cormorant helicopter at Gander airport in Newfoundland on March 10, 2022, which led to the destruction of the aircraft and injury to all […]

After flying five Airbus 310s in military configuration for over 40 years, the federal government will replace the RCAF’s fleet of five CC-150 Polarises with nine military versions of the Airbus 330, five of them […]

In a major federal cabinet makeover, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has replaced transport minister Omar Alghabra with former heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez. While the prime minister’s office does not release publicly reasons for changes in […]

Mike and Deborah Scholes, a husband-and-wife team from the United Kingdom, aborted their attempt Thursday to cross the Atlantic in a helium balloon from Sussex, New Brunswick to Spain when, hours into their flight, unspecified […]

In what has already been called the worst fire season on record, the pilot of a Bell 205A helicopter died on July 20 when his aircraft crashed in swampy terrain while taking part in a […]

Two Second World War-era bombers owned by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) have landed in Canada as part of a North American tour meant to provide opportunities for the public to view the historic warbirds […]

Laflamme Aero of Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Quebec has received $3.3 million in federal funding to advance their two LX300 RPAS models, unmanned twin-rotor cargo-carrying helicopters (see video at the bottom of this week’s newsletter). Unlike conventional quad-rotor […]

A Canadair CT-114 won’t be standing on guard outside of Fort McMurray airport any longer. After a nine-year career welcoming passengers to the airport’s new terminal (constructed in 2014), the aircraft, bedecked in RCAF Snowbird […]

A day-long seminar, Aviation 101 For Women, is planned to take place on Friday, August 11, the opening day of the three-day Abbotsford International Airshow. Co-hosted by Edmonton-based Elevate Aviation and the Ninety-Nines, Inc. (the […]

Pilotless airplane operations will be taking off soon in Northern Canada as tech upstart Ribbit begins flight-testing their Quad City Challenger II in cooperation with Transport Canada (TC) and Innovative Solutions Canada, the latter a […]

The Comox Air Force Museum, located at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island, saw its CF-104 Starfighter trucked 250 km down the Island this week to the British Columbia Aviation Museum, located at the Victoria International […]