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Long EZE Aerobatics
Fresh from his appearance at AirVenture 2018 in Oshkosh, Kyle Fowler, of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, will perform at the Canadian International Air Show this weekend in his Long EZE.
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CIAS This Weekend
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will make their only appearance outside the U.S. this weekend as they open the Canadian International Airshow for the first time in 15 years. The country’s largest and one of […]
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Swiss Air Anniversary
It’s been 20 years since the peace of picturesque Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia was shattered by Canada’s worst aviation disaster. Swiss Air Flight 111 hit the shallow waters off the community so hard on the […]
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Modern Cockpit For Old Workhorse
Innovators keep finding new ways to increase both the longevity and utility of the Boeing 737-200 and Mid Canada Mod Center has brought one of the classic airliners into the modern age of avionics. The […]
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Piper PA-31 – Landing Gear Not Extended – Belly Landing
2018-08-26 The privately registered Piper PA-31 aircraft (C-GTEW) with the pilot and a passenger on board was on approach to runway 34 at Midland / Huronia, ON (CYEE), and the landing gear had not been […]
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Murphy Elite on amphibious floats – Float strike – Cartwheel
2018-08-24 C-FDYF, a privately registered amateur-built Murphy Elite on amphibious floats, took off from Runway 25 at Vancouver / Boundary Bay, BC (CZBB) for a local flight. The aircraft became airborne early and a gust […]
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Brad Hodder
Flight Date: 07/08/2018 Flight School: Moncton Flight College Flight Instructor: Ryan Esch Comment: My first solo flight besides being a huge reflection of my characteristics as a pilot before taking the leap into the career […]
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Arrow Model Tests
Some nice vintage footage on the test program that put scale models of the CF-105 on the bottom of Lake Ontario, the first of which were raised from the depths earlier this week.
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Air Canada – Boeing 777-300 – Oil Leak – Engine Shut Down
2018-08-24 C-FIVS, a Boeing 777-300 aircraft operated by Air Canada, was conducting flight ACA001 from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson Intl, ON (CYYZ) to Tokyo/Haneda, Japan (RJTT) with 15 crew members and 365 passengers on board. During […]
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Superior Airways – Cessna P210N – Engine Failure – Fuel Starvation – Forced Landing
2018-08-01 C-GLML, a privately registered Cessna P210N aircraft operated by Superior Airways, was conducting a flight from Thunder Bay, ON (CYQT) to Red Lake, ON (CYRL). Prior to departing from CYQT, the fuel gauges indicated […]
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Canadian Helicopters – Bell 407 Helicopter – Water Bucket Inadvertent Release
2018-08-01 C-FAVT, a Bell 407 helicopter operated by Canadian Helicopters, was conducting forest fire control operations and was on approach to release a load of water from the suspended Bambi bucket, when the long-line was […]
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Dive Team Hopes To Raise 1959 Wreck
An RCMP dive team is expected to attempt the recovery of a Cessna 180 that crashed 59 years ago on a northern Saskatchewan lake with two men on board. Pilot Ray Gran and conservation officer […]
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Aireon Alert Registration Open
Registration is now open for Aireon Alert, a free global tracking system that can provide up-to-the-second position reports of any airline aircraft equipped with 1090mHz ADS-B. Aerion, which is majority owned by Nav Canada, is […]
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Arrow Model Recovered
Crews have recovered the first model of the Avro Arrow from Lake Ontario. The models, which were used to record the flight characteristics of the CF-105 in free flight tests in the 1950s, were propelled […]
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Air Canada – Boeing 777-300 – Oil Leak – Engine Shut Down
2018-08-24 C-FIVS, a Boeing 777-300 aircraft operated by Air Canada, was conducting flight ACA001 from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson Intl, ON (CYYZ) to Tokyo/Haneda, Japan (RJTT) with 15 crew members and 365 passengers on board. During […]