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The last leg of the Hawaii Mars’ final voyage took place on Wednesday evening (Aug, 21) as the Nickel Brothers transported the behemoth along the 3.2-kilometre stretch from Victoria airport’s seaplane base to the British […]

The weeks-long effort that went into making it possible for the Hawaii Mars, one of only two remaining Second-World-War-era Martin Mars flying boats, to fly to its final resting place at a B.C. museum paid […]

Spain is the latest European Union country to place an order for De Havilland Canada’s DHC-515 Firefighter water bomber. The announcement follows one made last month by Greece, Croatia and Portugal who together placed orders […]

The pilot of a privately registered Cessna 172N caused what can only be described as utter chaos in the sky above, and on the ground, at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport (CYPK) last July 4. The […]

As part of its agreement with Canada’s federal government for the purchase of a fleet of up to 16 Boeing Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, the aerospace giant has agreed to invest $61 million in British […]

With the final flight of one of the two remaining Martin Mars flying boats planned for Sunday (August 11), Vancouver’s Harbour Air (HA) has announced that two of its pilots, current HA pilot Rick Matthews, […]

As we reported in our March 29, 2024 newsletter, the Hawaii Mars, one of only two remaining Martin Mars flying boats, is destined for full retirement at the British Columbia Aviation Museum later this month. […]

University of New Brunswick historian Greg Marquis is searching for witnesses of Canada’s first aircraft hijacking. But first the backstory. It was on September 11, 1968, that Charles Lavern Beasley attempted to hijack an Air […]

The government of Ontario is purchasing five new helicopters to serve with police forces within the province. At least two of the choppers will be Airbus H135s operated by the Ontario Provincial Police and will […]

Once again Canada is experiencing a shortage of 100LL Avgas. We first became aware when Pitt Meadows-based fuel supplier Aero Club of British Columbia sent out a notice to customers and stakeholders on July 18 […]

One of the announcements related to Canada at AirVenture this year was that Tecnam has received Transport Canada approval for the Italian company’s P-Mentor, a two-place trainer that had already received EASA (European) and FAA […]

Once again, the Department of National Defence is talking about getting rid of the RCAF’s fleet of Canadair CT-114 Tutor jets. The aircraft, used by the military’s iconic Snowbirds, are now in their 7th decade, […]

A Noorduyn Norseman bush plane, suspended inside the atrium of Suncor’s office building in downtown Calgary for the last 40 years, is moving out. In fact, it is returning to a home it once knew […]

A glitch in the certification of a new storage tank at an Edmonton refinery has led to a scarcity of avgas across western Canada. Many fuel facilities at airports around B.C.’s Lower Mainland began running […]

A rare occurrence in Canadian skies to be sure, but a mid-air collision did take place this week not far from Alberta’s Villeneuve airport (CZVL), and remarkably no one was killed or even injured. At […]