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Laflamme Aero of Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Quebec has received $3.3 million in federal funding to advance their two LX300 RPAS models, unmanned twin-rotor cargo-carrying helicopters (see video at the bottom of this week’s newsletter). Unlike conventional quad-rotor […]

A Canadair CT-114 won’t be standing on guard outside of Fort McMurray airport any longer. After a nine-year career welcoming passengers to the airport’s new terminal (constructed in 2014), the aircraft, bedecked in RCAF Snowbird […]

A day-long seminar, Aviation 101 For Women, is planned to take place on Friday, August 11, the opening day of the three-day Abbotsford International Airshow. Co-hosted by Edmonton-based Elevate Aviation and the Ninety-Nines, Inc. (the […]

Pilotless airplane operations will be taking off soon in Northern Canada as tech upstart Ribbit begins flight-testing their Quad City Challenger II in cooperation with Transport Canada (TC) and Innovative Solutions Canada, the latter a […]

The Comox Air Force Museum, located at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island, saw its CF-104 Starfighter trucked 250 km down the Island this week to the British Columbia Aviation Museum, located at the Victoria International […]

Nunavik airline Air Inuit has announced that they will be replacing some of their old Boeing 737-200 series with more modern versions over the next 24 months. In a press release dated July 3, the […]

The United States’ State Department announced this week that it has approved the potential sale of Boeing’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to Canada. Although Canadian federal officials have stated that no decision has been […]

Late last week Transport minister Omar Alghabra announced proposed changes to CARs Part 9 (which concerns Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems) that would allow the routine operation of drones beyond visual line-of-sight (commonly referred to as […]

For the second year in a row, Toronto’s Downsview Airport is inviting the public to roam their runway during their ‘Play on The Runway’ event. Scheduled for Sunday, July 16 between the hours of 3 […]

A new Twin Otter model, the Classic 300-G, is being launched by De Havilland Canada (DHC) with the announcement made earlier this week at the Paris Air Show. DHC disclosed it had purchase agreements and […]

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board released on June 21 its report on transportation occurrence statistics for 2022. While the marine and rail sectors saw year-over-year increases in occurrences, the aviation sector saw a decrease, from 191 […]

François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of Innovation, Science and Industry announced in Paris the creation of the Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Technology program, or INSAT, that aims to accelerate the development and adoption of ‘green’ innovation […]

The last airworthy Martin Mars flying boat, the Hawaii Mars, is reportedly headed to the British Columbia Aviation Museum located on the grounds of Victoria International Airport in Sidney. “It would be one big jewel […]

In another example of general aviation coming to the aid of those stranded by catastrophic events, a craft brewery owner near Comox on Vancouver Island threw eight sacks of malt into a Cessna and flew […]

Cottage owners at Three Mile Lake, near Armour, Ontario are up in arms after they discovered that federal aviation regulations trump municipal and provincial regulations when it comes to the registration of water aerodromes and […]