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Canada’s federal government announced on Dec. 12 that it will be purchasing a fleet of six Bombardier Global 6500s to replace the aging fleet of 1980s-era Canadair Challengers, with options for an additional four depending […]

Personnel from several organizations were on hand at the Airbus facility in Donauwörth, Germany to inspect the first RCAF CT-153 Juno helicopter before its delivery to Airbus Helicopters’ facility in Fort Erie, Ontario where completion […]

After years of delays, replacements for the RCAF’s fleet of Search & Rescue (SAR) de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalos are finally operational on Canada’s West Coast. The Airbus CC-295 Kingfishers first began arriving at CFB […]

Quebec-based Nolinor Aviation has placed an order with California-based Natilus for multiple Kona aircraft, a blended-wing-body (BWB) cargo aircraft designed for operation on rough, unpaved runways. With a 3.8-tonne payload, the pusher-configured twin turboprop is […]

While many people find novel ways to display pride in their country, pilot Mike Jones took to the sky over Southern Ontario in his Grob G 115 to trace a near-perfect outline of a Canadian […]

Norwegian Air Traffic Service provider Avinor is expanding its remotely operated control tower program. Madrid, Spain-based Indra has contracted Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS to deliver a further seven airport systems that will be operated […]

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 […]

The Transportation Safety Board has dispatched an investigation team to Halifax in response to the Dec. 28 incident of a collapsed left-side landing gear of a PAL Dash 8-Q400 passenger turboprop at that city’s Stanfield […]

Vancouver Island’s Sealand Flight, a flight training unit based in Campbell River, announced the first solo flight by a student pilot in a battery-electric airplane in Canada. The December 20th announcement named 18-year-old Catherine Check […]

The RCAF’s Directorate of Flight Safety cited “unrecognized downward acceleration and environmental conditions” as factors in the nighttime crash of an RCAF Boeing CH-147F Chinook helicopter in the Ottawa River that resulted in the deaths […]

Parkland Corporation, an Alberta-based multi-national company with a refinery in Burnaby, British Columbia, announced last week that it has successfully produced Canada’s first batch of “low-carbon aviation fuel (LCAF)”. Air Canada was the buyer of […]

Canada’s air force is embarking on a pair of initiatives aimed at attracting new recruits for key positions. The first is the adoption into regular force employment of the Air Operations Support Technician (AOS Tech). […]

The acquisition of a fleet of Boeing P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft by the RCAF crossed a landmark last week when the US Navy placed a 17-aircraft order with Boeing. The order will be […]