Articles by David Niles

Airbus has awarded the contract to provide a full suite of training services for the C295 fixed wing search and rescue program. The contract could be worth as much as $300 million if all the […]

The remarkable journey of a PBY-5A from the edge of a northern lake to a touchstone for Canadian aviation history will end, and begin, June 18 with the official first flight of C-FNJE at Fairview […]

The Canadian Arctic Aviation Tour has begun a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for an ambitious air show tour of dozens of northern communities this summer. Supporters are invited to “buy a kilometre” of the […]

Aviation companies in Iqaluit rallied to help a Swiss Air International maintenance crew navigate some unfamiliar territory this week. On Feb. 1, A SwissAir Boeing 777 on its way to Los Angeles from Zurich had […]

An Iranian student pilot training in Manitoba has been caught up in U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Bardi Salimkhani was due to go on a long cross country flight through the U.S. with his […]

Canada will get its first of 18 Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets in 2019 but the fourth generation fighters might not look like much of a bargain by that time according to a CBC report. The […]

Pilots who fly for Air Georgian, which operates regional service for Air Canada in Ontario and the West, have voted overwhelmingly to join the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) “We welcome our more than 230 colleagues […]

The Transportation Safety Board has reiterated its call for improved crash survivability of emergency locator transmitters in its investigation of a 2015 helicopter crash in Ontario. Two people in the Robinson R-44 were killed in […]

Nominations are now being accepted for the Northern Lights Aero Foundation annual awards. People are encouraged to enter their picks for female aviation industry leaders in a variety of categories. “Each year, the national not- […]

Canadian Red Bull Air Race pilot Pete McLeod is hoping to put it all together in the 2017 race season. McLeod, who is based in London, Ontario, finished a respectable eighth in total race points […]

The French Air Force’s demonstration team the Patrouille de France will return to Canada for the first time in 31 years with a performance at the rescheduled Wings Over Gatineau show on April 30. The […]

Canada’s premiere private aircraft collection has changed the way it operates Vintage Wings of Canada will continue to allow public access to its planes. At a meeting in December, the board of directors of the […]

Two prominent Canadian aviation leaders have joined the executives of major international organizations. Canadian Owners and Pilots Association President Bernard Gervais has been elected the North American vice president of the International Aircraft Owners and […]

Capt. Matthew Kutryk will put a specially painted CF-18 through its paces at air shows all over North America as the demo pilot for 2017. Kutryk earned his wings in 2012 and was stationed at […]