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The accident, in which an RCAF CH-147F Boeing Chinook helicopter crashed into the Ottawa River during a nighttime training mission, took the lives of the two pilots on the night of June 20 of this […]

With the mass evacuations from Yellowknife and other communities in the face of advancing wildfires, Canada’s major airlines, including Air Canada and WestJet, laid on extra flights, although they were proving insufficient to meet the […]

As the novelty of consumer-class drones wears off and the perceived threat to aircraft is seeming to fade, one negative aspect that continues unabated is their use to transport contraband into prisons. The Collins Bay […]

In one of the more bizarre aviation news events over the past week, a helicopter pilot crash-landed his four-place Robinson R-44 in a British Columbia river on Saturday, August 12 then ran off, leaving his […]

In what Flair is calling a first-of-its-kind program in North America, the Edmonton-based ultra-low-cost airline has announced it is partnering with Genesis Flight College of Collingwood, Ontario to recruit and train new pilots from scratch […]

Kelowna airport authorities shut down their airspace on Friday (Aug. 18) to allow firefighting aircraft room to combat wildfires that are in the immediate vicinity. Early morning flights between Victoria and Kelowna were cancelled, initially […]

As of August 10, ADS-B OUT equipment using 1090ES technology is required to fly in Canadian Class A airspace (from 18,000 up to but not including 60,000 feet above sea level). ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) […]

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 […]