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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 […]

Airbus S.E. and Air Canada representatives were in the small mountain community of Squamish, British Columbia this week to announce an investment totalling millions of dollars in Squamish-based Carbon Engineering (CE), a company founded in […]

An organization known as the Elder Abuse Air Force (EAAF), formerly known as the Elder Abuse Awareness Flight, is planning a flight that will orbit Toronto’s CN Tower 83 times on Saturday morning, November 12, […]

Photo: TFASA Reports out of Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom suggest that former air force pilots of these countries are working for a South African firm that trains Chinese pilots. The company was identified […]

The crew and passengers of a chartered flight to the Dominican Republic last April were detained when over 200 kilograms of cocaine were discovered on board during a pre-departure check by the aircrew. Initially held […]

In 2016 Canada’s flag carrier ordered 45 Airbus A220s (previously known as the Bombardier CSeries). Last week Air Canada upped the order by 15. Currently there are 31 A220s in service, all within the airline’s […]

Leonardo, an Italy-based multi-national aerospace and defence company, has awarded their Cormorant Trophy jointly to the RCAF and the US Coast Guard in recognition of the successful rescue of all 31 crewmen from Atlantic Destiny, […]