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It’s not often that a navy ship is named after a pilot but the last of six of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Arctic patrol vessels will carry the name of a distinguished naval aviator from […]

Cascade Aerospace, of Abbotsford, B.C. has earned part of a lucrative contract to maintain the U.S. Marines’ fleet of KC-130J tanker aircraft. The company has teamed up with UK-based Marshall Aerospace and Defense Group to […]

COVID-19 has pushed back the effective date of new regulations requiring personal flotation devices for passengers and crew on small commercial seaplanes. The rules were supposed to go into effect on Sept. 6 and they’ve […]

The Canadian Harvard Society has started looking for an RCAF P-51D Mustang that crashed in Lake Ontario in 1952. The society hopes to recover the aircraft and possibly restore it and it also plans to […]

At least one of Air Canada’s Boeing 787s has been indefinitely grounded for what Boeing terms “two distinct manufacturing issues” in the fuselages of a total of eight Dreamliners. Boeing didn’t say specifically what the […]

WestJet will ban passengers who refuse to wear masks on board their aircraft for up to a year under a new zero tolerance policy announced Friday. Wearing a mask is mandatory for anyone older than […]

The National Airlines Council of Canada says it will need its own government aid program to emerge from the devastation of the COVID 19 pandemic. NACC wasted little time trying to get the ear of […]

Transport Canada will flight test the software changes to the Boeing 737 MAX in the coming week with a unique cross border arrangement that gets around the COVID 19 border closure. Boeing will fly the […]

An online alternative to the rust remover method of satisfying Transport Canada’s recurrency requirements is being offered by Elevate Aviation. The non-profit organization will live stream a free TC-approved recurrency program on Aug. 22 from […]

Transport Canada officials worked side by side with Air Canada and its engineering contractor Avianor to get lightning fast (by bureaucratic standards) for Air Canada to convert passenger aircraft to freighters in the early days […]

B.C. officials are pressing the federal government to force airlines to provide more and better information about passengers. Dozens of flights have been flagged as carrying passengers who have tested positive for COVID-19 but Dr. […]

Complications created by the pandemic have slowed delivery of Canada’s new search and rescue aircraft. Shiny new C295s are lining up on the ramp at the Airbus factory in Seville, Spain but it will likely […]

The somewhat chaotic state of airline travel is opening new opportunities for Canada’s charter companies as businesses and some private travellers look for safer alternatives. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in inquiries, bookings haven’t increased […]