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WestJet pilots have rejected forming a union by a small but decisive margin. In a vote held over the last couple of weeks, 55 percent of the 1,247 who voted rejected the idea. The WestJet […]

Fire officials in Kelowna, B.C. says they’ve spoken with the man who was operating a small unmanned aerial vehicle at a forest fire near the Okanagan city earlier this week. However there’s no word on […]

The Breitling Jet Team, which is an air show staple in Europe, is making its Canadian debut Friday. The team, a seven-ship formation of L-39 Albatros jets, will perform in the Friday night demonstration at […]

Now that the federal election has been called, those hoping to supply Canada with new fighter aircraft are resuming their public relations dogfight. In late July, Lockheed Martin executive VP Orlando Carvalho reiterated his company’s […]

A Russian helicopter pilot stranded on an ice floe in Davis Strait was down to his last flare when he spotted the Canadian Coast Guard ship Pierre Radisson in the fading light and building fog. […]

A Bonnyville, Alberta pathologist has been identified as the lone victim of a crash near Lac La Biche. Dr. Shekar Puttaswamy died when his Cessna 182 went down on Sunday. Puttaswamy’s plane went down about […]

Canadian aviation enthusiasts will mark the anniversary of the successful flight test of Canada’s first female pilot, Eileen Vollick,  during next years Women of Aviation Worldwide Week. Numerous flying events will be held from March […]

An apparent case of mistaken identity seriously disrupted a pilot’s career but it was not a case of discrimination the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Javed Latif, a Canadian pilot of Pakistani descent, was […]

As always there’s a large Canadian presence at AirVenture Oshkosh and the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association is using the U.S. event to reach out to Canadian pilots. EAA provides a large space on the […]

A flight re-enacting a little-known part of Canadian aviation history hit a snag at a stop in Edmonton on Tuesday. Russian, American and Canadian pilots are flying T-6s and DC-3s are flying from Great Falls, […]

WestJet pilots began voting this week on whether to form a union. The WestJet Professional Pilots Association has been leading the effort to get the majority of pilots to sign union cards and form an […]

An Ontario pilot had a lot of things going for him when something went wrong with his ERCO Ercoupe over Lake Michigan on July 18. The pilot, identified as Robert Kelly, set the little airplane […]

A Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday shows how just a little slip of the tongue can potentially lead to disaster. In the report, investigators say a little non-standard phraseology from a controller at Ottawa […]