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Delta A350 Sideswipes Air Canada 777
An Air Canada Boeing 777 was being towed to its assigned gate at Los Angeles’ LAX airport on Tuesday (October 6) when the left wing of a Delta Air Lines Airbus A350 clipped the 777’s […]
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Airbus Partners with Indigenous Institute
Airbus Helicopters is forming a partnership with the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) to develop aerospace training programs. The Fort Erie, Ontario-based division of the aerospace giant will provide faculty and the student body […]
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RCAF Partners with Fanshawe College
A four-year contract between the RCAF and London, Ontario’s Fanshawe College will conduct Transport Canada-approved training courses for Aviation Systems Technicians, Avionics Systems Technicians and Aircraft Structures Technicians. The training will take place at 16 […]
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Elsie Award Winner
This week we are recognizing one of the eight 2026 Elsie award winners. Named after Elsie MacGill, the chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry who oversaw the production of 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes during […]
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Images From the Snowbirds’ Final Canadian Public Airshow
It has been a little more than a week that the Snowbirds made what is expected to be their last public aerobatic performance in Canada using the venerable Canadair Tutor Jet. The event was at […]
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Airports Group Calls for New Thinking
In a response to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement that four of Canada’s largest airports may be open to private operators, the Regional Community Airports of Canada (RCAC) is calling for a different method of […]
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Kelowna Airport Scores Federal Funding
Federal MP for Kelowna Stephen Fuhr was at Kelowna’s airport (YLW) on September 28 to announce federal funding of up to $24.4 million to support the construction of infrastructure required for the expansion of airport […]
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Elsie Award Winner
This week we are recognizing one of the eight 2026 Elsie award winners. Named after Elsie MacGill, the chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry who oversaw the production of 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes during […]
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First CF-35A Lightning II Takes Flight
The first RCAF Lightning II to come off the assembly line took off on its first flight this week (Sept. 23) from a U.S. military base in Fort Worth, Texas. The base is the site […]
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Flight Training Students Perish in Crash
Two flight training students building time toward their Commercial Pilot Licences were killed when their Cessna 172 crashed early last Friday (Sept. 18) near Kisbey, Saskatchewan. The two pilots on board, students at Manitoba’s Harv’s […]
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First Siskin II trainers delivered
RCAF commander Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet welcomed the first two CT-157 Siskin II aircraft to Canada at a ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec on September 17. The aircraft, destined to replace the CT-156 Harvard II, used to […]
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Elsie Award Winner
This week we are recognizing one of the eight 2026 Elsie award winners. Named after Elsie MacGill, the chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry who oversaw the production of 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes during […]
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Harbour Air Purchasing Pacific Coastal Airlines
The Vancouver-based float plane operator announced Tuesday (Sept. 15) that it is purchasing regional airline Pacific Coastal Airlines (PCA). The combined fleet would number 59 aircraft and serve a total of 25 destinations. Toronto-based Birch […]
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Comox SAR Aircraft Kept Busy in BC
Twice in one week, Search and Rescue assets from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron, based at CFB Comox, airlifted ill or injured personnel from cruise ships sailing off the British Columbia coast. The first case […]
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Elsie Award Winner
Elsie Award Winner This week we are recognizing another one of the eight 2026 Elsie award winners. Named after Elsie MacGill, the chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry who oversaw the production of […]