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WestJet and Disney Pair Up

In early December, WestJet and Walt Disney World unveiled a flying mural for the Orlando theme park that is the foundation of an extended partnership between the two. WestJet and Disney have partnered on vacation […]

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Air Canada Gets First 787 In March

Air Canada will get the first of 37 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in March but while the aircraft is mainly designed for medium and long-haul routes, passengers on milk runs between Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto will […]

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Student Leaves Runway

Nov. 26/13-The student-pilot of the Cessna 152, registration C-GAUB, was in the circuit for touch and go’s on runway 24L at CYHU Montreal/St-Hubert airport. This was the student’s fourth solo flight. Upon touching down on […]

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Stick Shaker Activated

Dec. 1/13-The DHC8-400, registration C-FSRJ, operated by Sky Regional Airlines as flight AC7512 was on final approach runway 24L at Montreal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intl airport when the aircraft encountered a significant wind shift which resulted […]

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Hadfield Hits Talk Show Circuit

Retired astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield entertained and informed a Hollywood audience on late-night television Monday as he matched veteran host Conan O’Brien joke for joke and double entendre for double entendre during a refreshingly civilized […]

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Five Dead, Two Survive Metro Crash

A Bearskin Airlines Metroliner (C-FFZN) crashed near the Red Lake, Ontario airport late Sunday. Five people have been confirmed dead and there were two survivors. The flight originated in Sioux Lookout. Kenoraonline.com reported that the […]

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Judge Bans RC Aircraft on B.C. Farmland

What started as a neighbourhood noise complaint has become a B.C. Supreme Court decision that could have far-reaching implications for the fledgling drone industry. Justice Frank Cole effectively ruled in late October that remote control […]

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Viking Sells Three Twin Otters to Air Seychelles

Air Seychelles Adds Viking Series 400 Twin Otters to Expanding Fleet    Viking Twin Otter Series 400 Selected Aircraft-of-Choice for  Air Seychelles, Etihad Airways Equity Partner      Mahe, Seychelles, October 30th, 2013:  Viking Air […]

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Pilot Killed in Ultralight Crash

Oct. 10/13-The privately operated Delisle C.A.D.I. advanced ultra-light (C-FSLO) collided with terrain 11 nm NE of Belleville. The aircraft was destroyed. The pilot, the sole occupant, was fatally injured.

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Baggage Cart Takes Out Beech 1900 Engines

Oct. 10/13-The Wasaya Airways Beech 1900D aircraft, registration C-FWAX was standing on the ramp with the engines running. A strong gust of wind blew a baggage cart into the right propeller of the aircraft, and […]

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Cracked Nut Found

Transport Canada continuing airworthiness received a service difficulty report from an operator in Thunder Bay, Ontario who found a cracked MS210424 nut in their stock after complying with Civil Aviation Safety Alert CASA 2013-04 and […]

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Canadian Aircraft in Bizarre U.S. Crash

U.S. authorities are scrambling to explain how the crash of a Canadian-registered Cessna 172  went unnoticed at Nashville International Airport for up to six hours. One of several 172s operated by the Windsor Flying Club […]

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Engine Smoke Evacuates Dash-8

Oct. 10/13-The Jazz LLP (doing business as Air Canada Express) de Havilland DHC-8-301 (C-GKTA) was operating as flight JZA8486 from Edmonton, AB (CYEG) to Saskatoon, SK (CYXE). Ramp personnel observed smoke coming from the inboard […]