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With the recent delivery of the first of dozens of Embraer E195-ECs to Toronto’s Porter Airlines comes the announcement of the inaugural routes for the airline newest fleet addition. Operating from Toronto’s Pearson airport, the […]

The owner-operator of a drone faces a fine of $10,000 after being caught flying his device near Jasper Lake, located well within the boundaries of Jasper National Park, on September 6 of this year. Rajwinder […]

A fighter jockey’s handle, or call sign, that led to another well-publicized scandal in the RCAF was homophobic in nature, it has been reported. Two senior officers are facing charges relating to the incident, which […]

The 50th anniversary of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame (CAHF) will be celebrated next year as more high achievers in Canada’s aviation and aerospace industries are inducted into the august body. Those who will join […]

Next spring will see the last flight of Canadian North’s 737-200. The aircraft has been a popular model in Canada’s North over the years due to its ability to routinely and safely land on gravel […]

Dale Nielsen, a Class 1 Flight Instructor in the fixed-wing division of Abbotsford, British Columbia’s Chinook Helicopters, was presented with the David Charles Abramson Memorial Flight Instructor Safety Award at the recently held ATAC conference […]

As reported in the November 11 edition of this newsletter, the Pivot Airlines crew that had been detained in the Dominican Republic in early April, 2022 after reporting to local authorities that a pre-flight inspection […]

Montreal’s Bombardier Business Aircraft, one of the remnants of the vast Bombardier empire that at one time included the CSeries regional jets, Shorts Brothers, Learjet, de Havilland Canada, Flexjet, Rotax, a Business Aircraft Training division […]

Planning and preparations continue for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the RCAF, which will occur in 2024. It was in July 2021 that then-RCAF commander LGen Al Meinzinger, together with the RCAF’s Command […]

The wreckage of a Cessna Float plane that crashed on Wednesday afternoon in Strachan Bay, on the British Columbia mainland about 28 nm north of Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, was found Friday by the RCMP’s […]

Thirty-five-year-old Simon Hergott was arrested by the RCMP for interfering last week with the rescue of a downed paraglider pilot on Mount Paul, located at the northern edge of Kamloops, British Columbia. The paraglider pilot, […]

The Air Transport Association of Canada, founded in 1934 as the Commercial Air Transport and Manufacturers’ Association of Canada, returned to the West Coast for the first time since 2018 for their 88th annual conference, […]

Passengers on American Airlines flight AA1350 were inconvenienced when the aircraft they were already abord and awaiting departure from the gate was struck by another aircraft that was taxiing by. The wingtip of the offending […]