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Second Off-Airport Landing In A Week
For the second time in a week a training aircraft made an off-airport landing in metro Vancouver. The Cessna 152 with an instructor and student on board landed in a bushy area next to a […]
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Basler Dunked In Northern Ontario
Both North Star Air crew members escaped unharmed when their empty Basler BT-67 ended up in the shallow water of Eabamet Lake near the Eabametoong First Nation early Friday morning. Early reports suggest the turboprop […]
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CL-515 Promotional Video
Viking Air is heavily promoting its proposed CL-515 multipurpose firefighting aircraft at the Paris Air Show and this video outlines the program.
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Air Canada Teams With Drone Company
Drone Delivery Canada is planning extensive services in rural and urban areas of Canada using drones that can carry up to 400 pounds.
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Bombardier, Mitsubishi Talk CRJ
Bombardier is reportedly in talks to hive off the last of its commercial aircraft business. The CRJ program used to be the bread and butter of the company’s aviation division but it’s now losing money […]
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De Havilland Nameplate Returns
The De Havilland name returned to aviation earlier this week as Longview Aviation Capital Corp. formally took ownership of Bombardier’s Dash-8 program and immediately went back to the aircraft’s roots. The current iteration, the Q400, […]
TSB Incidents
Province of Ontario – CL-415 water bomber – Water scoop issue
2019-05-29 C-GOGZ, a Bombardier CL-415 water bomber aircraft operated by the Province of Ontario, was conducting fire suppression operations near Pikangikum (CYPM), ON with 2 pilots on board. While scooping water on a lake, the […]
TSB Incidents
Privately registered Maule M-5-210C aircraft on floats-fuel issue
2019-05-28 C-GORG, a privately registered Maule M-5-210C aircraft on floats, was on a local solo training flight out of Watson Lake, BC. During the return back to Watson Lake, the aircraft ran out of fuel. […]
TSB Incidents
Privately registered Aeroquest Everest Basic Ultra-light aircraft-lost control on landing,
2019-05-27 C-IJAI, a privately registered Aeroquest Everest Basic Ultra-light aircraft, was on a local pleasure flight from Erickson Muni (CKQ6), MB with only the pilot on board. Just prior to the touchdown during the landing […]
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Video-Based Flight Recorder Unveiled
A young Kelowna inventor has come up with an affordable video system that serves as a flight data recorder for light aircraft. Ephraim Nowak, 26, has created a “computer vision system” that records readings from […]
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Last Five Miles For DC-3
A Buffalo Airways DC-3 finally returned to the Hay River Airport last week, covering the five nautical miles it was short of the runway on a barge and on a flatbed trailer. The aircraft, which […]
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Libel Suit Quashed In Air Safety Case
Air Georgian says it will appeal an Ontario court decision to dismiss its $10 million libel suit against a former pilot who wrote a book about his time with the airline. The National Post is […]
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Lost Freighter Found
A Bristol Freighter that fell through the ice of Baker Lake, Yukon in the spring of 1969 was found by a couple of pilots and a sidescan sonar operator last summer. They shot this video […]
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ADS-B Proposal Outlined
Nav Canada is proposing that aircraft flying in most controlled airspace be equipped with ADS-B by as early as Jan. 1, 2023. In an email response to a personal inquiry by Canadian Aviator columnist Rich […]