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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 […]

Mike and Deborah Scholes, a husband-and-wife team from the United Kingdom, aborted their attempt Thursday to cross the Atlantic in a helium balloon from Sussex, New Brunswick to Spain when, hours into their flight, unspecified […]

In what has already been called the worst fire season on record, the pilot of a Bell 205A helicopter died on July 20 when his aircraft crashed in swampy terrain while taking part in a […]

Two Second World War-era bombers owned by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) have landed in Canada as part of a North American tour meant to provide opportunities for the public to view the historic warbirds […]

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 […]