Top Aces Training RCAF Pilots

Top Aces, a privately owned Montreal-based advanced airborne training contractor, is providing training to RCAF pilots using their fleet of McDonnell Douglas A-4N Skyhawk trainers. The aircraft type is being used for fighter lead-in training […]

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Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief
Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief
We reported last December that Bombardier received an order for 12 Challenger 3500 jets. Last week, the Montreal-based aerospace company reported that it had delivered its 100th 3500, which is ...
Nav Canada to End Telephone ATIS Service
Nav Canada to End Telephone ATIS Service
Nav Canada has announced that telephone-based ATIS (Automated Terminal Information Service) will be discontinued early in 2025. The air traffic control service provider blames the service reduction on its telephone ...
Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief
Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief
A U.S. judge has denied a request by Sikorsky Aircraft to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Canadian Armed Forces personnel killed when their RCAF CH-148 ...

Featured Videos


Highway Landing

Florent Gagné needed to get out of the house on Thursday and instead of a walk around the block he went for a flight around the patch in Quebec City ...

Beaver Documentary

Instead of our normal quick hit video this week, put the headphones on and settle in for an hour-long documentary on the Beaver, centred around Viking Air’s restoration of Olivia, ...

Photo Flight

Dave Hadfield took the Vintage Wings Spitfire to Oshkosh a couple of years ago and a photo flight was inevitable ...

Away From It All

Social distancing at its finest is available off the west coast of Vancouver Island where Vargas Island Beach makes a great runway ...

Ketchikan To Prince Rupert

Time to start thinking about summer flying trips and the northwest corner of the continent offers challenges and beauty ...

Update On Plane Savers Fokker DR 1

Restoring vintage aircraft is often a waiting game and work has stalled on the vintage aircraft while the Buffalo crew awaits parts ...
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Recent Incidents

Springbank Air Training College – Cessna 172N – Emergency Landing
2019-10-02 C-GYZA, a Cessna 172N aircraft operated by Springbank Air Training College, was conducting a local instructional flight at Springbank Airport, AB (CYBW) with one flight instructor and one student pilot on board. Due to ...
Advanced ultra-light – Hard Landing
2019-10-01 C-ILWA, an Aeroprakt-22LS advanced ultra-light aircraft operated by Hart's Aviation flight training unit, was conducting a first solo flight at Langley (CYNJ), BC with only the student pilot on board. Following numerous missed approaches ...
WestJet Encore – DHC-8-400 – Flap Issue
2019-10-12 C-GWEO, a de Havilland DHC-8-400 aircraft operated by WestJet Encore, was conducting flight WEN3504 from London (CYXU), ON to Toronto/Lester B. Pearson Intl (CYYZ), ON. During the approach at CYYZ, the crew selected flaps ...
Titan Tornado II Advanced Ultra-light – Flipped on Touchdown
2019-09-21 C-IMAG, an amphibious Titan Tornado II Advanced Ultra-light, was on a local flight when it performed a water landing near Port Franks, Ontario. Upon touchdown the aircraft immediately flipped over. The two occupants exited ...
Privately registered Cessna 177B – Engine Failure on Approach
2019-08-27 C-GLFH, a privately registered Cessna 177B aircraft, was on final approach to Salmon Arm (CZAM), BC with 2 persons on board. On short final, the pilot noticed he no longer had engine power. The ...
Sunrise Helicopters – Bell 206L helicopter – Tree Strike
2019-08-25 C-GHUG, a Bell 206L helicopter operated by Sunrise Helicopters, was conducting aerial works flight with chemical spray equipment from a Mix Rig platform, en route for a final spray application. The pilot was watching ...
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