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Canadian adversary aircraft operator Top Aces has more than doubled its fleet with the purchase of all 25 of Belgium’s Alpha Jets. The Alphas were put up for sale by the Belgian Air Component in […]

Three people are dead after a float-equipped Murphy Moose crashed near Edmonton on Friday. Cooking Lake Airport Operations Manager Tom Steele told the CBC that the plane took off from the airport with the owner, […]

The RCAF says a fuel leak likely led to the ejection of a Snowbirds pilot and the loss of his CT-114 Tutor in Georgia last October. The investigators also said in their final report that […]

Australian authorities say carbon monoxide poisoning was likely behind the mysterious New Year’s Eve 2017 crash of a de Havilland Beaver floatplane that killed its experienced pilot and five members of a prominent British family. […]

It’s back to  fighting over armrests and reclining seat wars for passengers on Canada’s two main air carriers as both Air Canada and WestJet announced an end to physical distancing on their aircraft. As of […]

The future of one of two airports on a main VFR route through the southern Rockies is under review as councillors in Golden ponder their facility’s economic viability. The Golden Airport is home to a […]

Transport Canada says Boeing must make it possible for pilots to deactivate the stick shaker in 737 MAX aircraft when it’s clearly responding to bad sensor information. The measure is in addition to the software […]

The Ottawa Citizen is reporting the RCAF has added a new ejection seat to the list of upgrades planned for the fleet of CT-114 Tutor aircraft. The change in a previously announced life extension program […]

Canada’s ultralight aircraft operators say proposed rules to allow drones that weigh more than ultralights to fly in rural airspace, including beyond visual line of sight are a significant risk for manned operations. In a […]

Air Canada has formally retired its fleet of Boeing 767s after flying various iterations of the type for almost 38 years. It’s last revenue flight with Boeing’s first two-aisle, two-engine airliner came June 2 when […]