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Transport Canada has mandated that all aircraft except gliders, balloons, airships, ultralights and gyroplanes be equipped with 406 MHz ELTs that simultaneously broadcast on 121.5. Aircraft operated for recreational purposes have until Nov. 25, 2025 […]

A Calgary-based group has formed to bring the vast store of aerial imagery from drones to everyone’s desktop. The Open Aerial Imagery Association (OAIA) is a not for profit group that wants to make the […]

The future of an airport named for one of Canada’s most famous pilots could be determined in an online open house scheduled for Nov. 25. Sarnia’s Chris Hadfield Airport is suffering financial difficulties since scheduled […]

Transport Canada has not cleared the Boeing 737 MAX to fly in its airspace even though U.S. authorities approved it for passenger service last week. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said his department will set its […]

Air Canada will accelerate retirement of 79 aircraft and has cancelled orders for 22 new aircraft as it leans itself for the post-pandemic market. “We have taken several measures to carefully rationalize our existing fleet,” […]

Canada-based flight training company CAE is predicting a return to a critical shortage of pilots as early as 2022 after aviation activity rebounds from the pandemic. While thousands of pilots are furloughed or have lost […]

In the first tangible example of sector-specific support for the pandemic-ravaged aviation industry, the federal government will pay up to $7 million to cover the losses of companies serving the 28 aviation-dependent communities in the […]

Max Ward, a bush pilot whose huge personality and entrepreneurial spirit made him well known to all Canadians died Nov. 2 at the age of 98. Ward cut his business teeth in the North, supplying […]

London-based International Test Pilot School (ITPS) says it’s reached a deal with Korea Aerospace Industries that will eventually lead to the school acquiring up to 12 FA-50 Fighting Eagle light combat and training aircraft. Initially, […]

The family of an 18-year-old student glider pilot killed in a midair collision in 2019 is petitioning Transport Canada to make collision avoidance warning systems mandatory on gliders and towplanes.  Adam Leinweber and instructor Allan […]

A group of private and public sector organizations have formed the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium in Vancouver. At a news conference on Wednesday, the organization was formally launched with the goal to exploit new […]

A former RCAF pilot has joined Virgin Galactic and will be among those flying tourists to the edge of space and back aboard the company’s rocket-powered aircraft. Jameel Janjua said he’s happy to on the […]

An Alberta powered paraglider pilot’s helmet cam filmed his final flight and allowed investigators to determine that a chance encounter with a dust devil caused his fatal crash. The Transportation Safety Board watched the video […]

This week marks the hundredth anniversary of the first trans-Canada flight, a remarkable feat for the time. A group of pilots, flying a series of different aircraft, flew 5,400 km from Halifax to Esquimalt in […]

International travellers visiting Alberta will have the option to skip most of the current mandatory 14-day quarantine in favour of taking two tests for COVID-19 starting Nov. 2. The federal government will roll out a […]