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The RCAF says it is inspecting Cormorant helicopters at 9 Wing Gander after an accident on Thursday destroyed one of the aircraft and sent four of six crew members to hospital. One was kept overnight […]

WestJet has bought Sunwing and will expand its vacation destination offerings. “The transaction will bring together two distinctly Canadian travel and tourism success stories to deliver new travel options and greater value for travellers in […]

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame is moving to Calgary after 25 years at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin. The Hall’s new home will be at the Hangar Flight Museum in Calgary. Last week 15,000 artifacts […]

A Russian billionaire and his fellow adventurer may still be in Yellowknife after Transport Canada kicked their chartered Falcon 900 out of the country and fined them, the pilots and the owner of the plane […]

A wild conspiracy theory burned up social media in North Bay, Ontario last week thanks to a Dash-8 and a CRJ parked innocently on the ramp outside Voyageur Airways at Jack Garland Airport. Someone posted […]

Fire destroyed most of the aviation training program at the First Nations Training Institute near Belleville, Ontario Thursday causing tens of millions of dollars in damage and putting the flight training of dozens of students […]

Air Canada’s pivot to a cargo carrier during the pandemic would appear to have had a lasting effect on the airline. When passenger service essentially ground to a halt in 2020, the airline took the […]

Buoyed by a wave of well-heeled travellers anxious to avoid the COVID travel mess, Bombardier Inc. has turned the corner on profitability and is considering increasing production of its high-priced business jets. The company expects […]

The last CT-155 Buffalo in the RCAF’s inventory  was destined for Canada’s national aviation museum but the Canada Aviation and Space Museum may not accept it. The Buff, which has toiled for the Air Force […]

Cessna is bringing back one of its most popular niche aircraft in a modernized form that should endear it to a new generation of accomplished GA pilots. Textron, which owns Cessna, announced this week that […]

Aircraft flying in Class A and B airspace above 12,500 feet will have to be equipped with ADS-B Out that works with Nav Canada’s space-based ADS-B system by Feb. 23, 2023. ADS-B will not be […]

Three Royal Canadian Air Force members escaped injury when the leased King Air 350 they were operating was destroyed in a runway accident in Thunder Bay, Ontario on Jan. 31. Few details have been released […]

Cracks that have formed on the tails of most of the RCAF’s fleet of Cyclone helicopters resulted from adding military equipment to the structures. The Cyclones are militarized versions of the Sikorsky S-92 civilian helicopter, […]

KF Aerospace has announced it has acquired one of the few flying De Havilland Mosquito bombers for its Centre of Excellence now under construction in Kelowna, B.C. The Mosquito in question is a former Spartan […]