2018-08-04 C-GJSZ, a Bell 206B Helicopter, operated by Expedition Helicopters was maneuvering at the operator’s base located in Cochrane, Ontario when a main rotor blade contacted a covered trailer. The main rotor and transmission separated […]
2018-07-30 C-FKNS, a float equipped, Found Aircraft Canada FBA-2C1, commercially operated by Georgian Bay Airways, departed Toronto Billy Bishop Water Aerodrome destined for Parry Sound Harbour. During low level maneuvering in the Lake Muskoka area, […]
2018-07-05 C-GVZP, a privately-operated Piper PA-28-140, departed runway 29 at the Sechelt Aerodrome (CAP3) on a local sight-seeing flight with the pilot and three passengers. The wind was variable and gusty, predominately from the west. […]
Historic Flight Foundation Founder John Sessions was the pilot of a de Havilland Dragon Rapide that crashed at Abbotsford on Aug. 11. Sessions flies everything in his extensive collection and was checked out in a […]
Bombardier now builds the largest capacity turboprop airliner after Transport Canada approved a 90-seat interior configuration for the Q400. “With increasing growth in the number of passengers per departure in the turboprop market, we are […]
The pilot of the 1930s vintage biplane that crashed shortly after the Abbotsford Airshow last week has been identified as John Sessions, the founder of the Historic Flight Foundation and an experienced pilot. He and […]
Heavy smoke from forest fires have disrupted airline schedules and virtually ended most general aviation traffic in much of B.C. Smoke blanketed the interior of B.C. late Friday and many GA airports were reporting visibility […]
2018-08-12 C-FTIY, a privately operated Christavia MK I Amateur Built aircraft, was conducting a local flight from the Indus/Winters Aire Park, AB (CFY4) with only the pilot on board. This was the first flight after […]
2018-08-11 N683DH, a vintage De Havilland DH-89A MKIV ‘Dragon Rapide’ biplane operated by Historic Flight Foundation, was conducting air rides at the termination of the second day of the Abbotsford International Airshow, when it departed […]
2018-08-11 C-FIYA, a Boeing 767-300 aircraft operated by Air Canada rouge, was conducting flight ROU1947 from Lima/Jorge Chávez Intl, Perú (SPJC) to Toronto/Lester B. Person Intl, ON (CYYZ) with 9 crew members and 253 passengers […]
2018-08-07 C-GNQZ, a Pilatus PC-12/47E aircraft operated by North Star Air, was conducting flight BF711 from Pickle Lake, ON (CYPL) to Webequie, ON (CYWP). When the aircraft was in a climbing right turn after the […]
There’s nothing like the rumble of warbird engines to get the interest of pilots and the Canadian Warbird Operators Conference aims to keep them flying.
The newly-formed Canadian Warbird Operator Conference (CWOC), a not-for-profit organization based in Ontario, aims to fill a void in Canada by organizing a conference in Ottawa from October 18 to 20 that brings together Canadian […]
An associate professor at the University of Waterloo says aviation in Canada faces an “existential crisis” because of the unsustainable absorption of fresh pilot graduates by labour-short airlines. In an opinion piece in MacLeans Magazine, […]
Fuel mismanagement was the cause of a forced landing by a Piper Navajo on a Calgary street earlier this year. The Transportation Safety Board found the pilots neglected to switch from the outboard to inboard […]
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