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SkyRider Canadian Distributor Announced

An Ontario insurance broker is the Canadian, U.S. and Indian distributor for SkyRider, a new two-place helicopter designed in Italy. Bill Davidson says the aircraft is destined to “take over the training for helicopters,” because […]

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Drone Videographer Criticizes Critics

The owner of the YouTube channel that features a controversial video of an airliner on approach to Vancouver International Airport has criticized public and media response to his video, saying there was never any danger […]

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Suit Launched in Hang Gliding Death

Three groups representing hang glider and paraglider pilots in British Columbia and across the country have been named in a lawsuit resulting from the death of young woman who fell from a tandem hang glider […]

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Aviation Inspectors Worry About SMS

Aviation Inspectors Worry About SMS Transport Canada’s depiction of aviation inspectors at work. Canada’s aviation inspectors are increasingly giving the Safety Management System a failing grade and more of them believe aviation accidents will be […]

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Sunglasses Spark Cockpit Fire

April 21/14-A Pacific Coastal Airlines Beech 1900 (C-FPCO) flight PCO135 taxied to position for take-off from runway 26L in Vancouver (CYVR). The pilot’s sunglasses, having been left on the glareshield, shorted out the windshield heat […]

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Ice Gives Way Under Twin Otter

April 20/14-The Transwest Air de Havilland DHC-6 200 (C-FGLF) operating on skis had landed at Scott Lake NT and was taxiing to the un-loading area. The aircraft began to break through the ice into slush. […]

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Avcorp Gets Technology Grant

Delta, B.C.’s Avcorp has been awarded a $4.4 million federal repayable contribution to develop new metal bonding technologies for use in aircraft parts manufacturing. The funding will allow the company to hire staff, including university […]

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YVR Drone Video Stirs Controversy

An unidentified person who goes by the YouTube name of Quadrotor Dragonfly is stirring some angry controversy after a clearly illegal and potentially dangerous drone flight resulted in a bird’s eye view of a 737 […]

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F-35 Decision Back to Harper

The Harper government now has all the information it has asked for to make a decision on how to move forward with acquiring new fighter jets for the RCAF. The RCAF has finished a comprehensive […]

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F-35 Decision Back to Harper

The Harper government now has all the information it has asked for to make a decision on how to move forward with acquiring new fighter jets for the RCAF. The RCAF has finished a comprehensive […]

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Homebuilt Ground Loops

April 11/14-The privately operated amateur-built Super Petrel 100, C-FYGH, was operating on a local pleasure flight from Olds-Didsbury, AB to a private airstrip 10 nm nw of Springbank, AB. An approach was conducted for the […]