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The RCAF has released the design scheme for its 2018 CF-18 demo aircraft, this year honouring the 60th anniversary of the North American Aerospace Defence Command. Each year the Air Force’s graphic designer Jim Belliveau […]

Goose Bay Airport had a couple of heavies on the ramp for a few hours earlier this week as yet another airline crew took advantage of the former Strategic Air Command Base’s 11,000-foot runway for […]

A close call for an Alberta pilot knocked out power to thousands of people in southern Alberta on Tuesday. The unidentified pilot was landing at the Olds-Didsbury Airport, north of Calgary, about 8 p.m. when […]

Bombardier has confirmed that it is looking at selling its Toronto manufacturing and flight test facilities and that it won’t necessarily be selling it as an aviation concern. The company said in a statement issued […]

The actual cause of the crash that killed seven people on Iles de Madelaine two years ago was the low altitude upset of the MU-2 turboprop but the Transportation Safety Board says the root cause […]

A highly experienced Canadian seaplane pilot killed in a crash in Australia on New Year’s Eve was remembered as “a great pilot and a great man,” at funeral services in Sydney. Gareth Morgan was flying […]

As was widely speculated at the time, an Air Canada A320 was on the wrong frequency when it ignored strident orders to go around from the tower controller at San Francisco International Airport last October. […]

Korean Air got its first CS300 last week and was showing it off to anyone who wanted to take a picture or have an interview with its senior brass. The aircraft seats 127 including 25 […]

The Brazilian government has come clean on its relationship with Embraer thanks to Boeing’s takeover overtures. President Michel Temer said that under no circumstances would the country give up control of the company, which is […]

The federal government is urging Air Canada to spend millions of dollars to quieten its A320-family aircraft, which it is gradually retiring,  mainly for the benefit of the neighbours of Pearson Airport in Toronto. Transport […]

Construction has begun on a new fixed-wing search and rescue training centre at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island. The facility is being built as part of the integration of the Airbus C-295 into its role […]

Boeing and Embraer are in talks for what might become the absorption of the Brazilian manufacturer by the Chicago-based giant. Although Boeing is cagey about the talks, saying they are about a possible “combination” of […]

The Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety advisory in the wake of last week’s fatal crash of a Hydro One helicopter reminding operators to ensure cargo being stored outside the cabin be securely attached. […]

Air Canada was showing off its new Boeing 737 MAX this week, running scheduled and test flights across the country and inviting planespotters to get out to see the new aircraft. The first MAX entered […]

Flair Airlines now says it will have 12 Boeing 737s in the air by early 2019 as it tries to establish a foothold in the ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) market as competition looms from […]