Articles by David Niles

Rosella Bjornson, the pioneering young woman who became North America’s  first female airline pilot in 1973 was honoured at the Alberta Aviation Museum last weekend. Bjornson took the right seat of a Transair Fokker F-28 on […]

First Flight for Global 7000 Bombardier says all went as expected with the first flight of its flagship Global 7000 business jet last week. The big airplane took off from Bombardier’s private field at Downsview […]

A New Zealand-based company with partners in China has bought the type certificate to Found Aircraft’s final and most ambitious design. Pacific Aerospace will build the E350 Expedition initially at its plant in Hamilton, NZ […]

The British Columbia Aviation Council’s Annual Silver Wings Awards Banquet, held at the Vancouver Convention Centre, overlooking the seaplane base on Coal Harbour. Seven award winners were as follows: Entrepreneur of the Year in Aviation, Ken […]

The Canadian Ninety-Nines have awarded their Canadian Award in Aviation to the Saskatchewan Aviation Historical Society Inc., located at John G. Diefenbaker International Airport in Saskatoon. The group will use the $2,000 award “to enhance […]

The Transportation Safety Board says it will hold aviation authorities and agencies to account for ignoring its recommendations in a new proactive stance that will undoubtedly make some waves. Chair Kathy Fox said in a […]

The Transportation Safety Board has renewed calls for collision avoidance systems for light aircraft after a highly publicized mid-air collision near Fort McMurray in June, 2015. Video of the Cessna 185 floatplane involved in the […]

Authorities are investigating why a British Airways A380 diverted more than 1,000 miles to Vancouver on Monday night and the entire crew left 400 puzzled passengers in the aircraft while they checked in at hospitals. […]

On the tenth anniversary of its disruptive entry to the Central Canada airline market, Porter Airlines is looking at modest growth with an emphasis on existing markets. By now, CEO Robert Deluce had hoped to […]

That beautiful photo of the Snowbirds, Breitling Jet Team and the Canadian Forces CF-18 demo plane flying in formation over Lake Ontario that we featured last week had an error in the accompanying story. The […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has asked his senior staff to investigate making cockpit voice and flight data recorders mandatory in unspecified aircraft that are not now required to have them. “I think that it’s a […]

It was 1937 when Hanna Reitsch took the controls of a Focke-Achgelis 61 helicopter and became the world’s first female helicopter pilot. In celebration, the theme for the seventh annual Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, […]

The RCAF CF-18 demo team, the Snowbirds and the Breitling Jet Team represent perhaps the epitome of formation aerobatics skill and grace so what happens when they pool their talents? Photographer Ken Lin got a […]

On Nov. 8, Hope Air will celebrate 30 years of helping medical patients in small and isolated communities get the care they need by organizing flights for them. “Countless people have had a hand in […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has asked his senior staff to investigate making cockpit voice and flight data recorders mandatory in unspecified aircraft that are not now required to have them. “I think that it’s a […]