Articles by David Niles

Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal has ruled against a plan to build eight wind turbines within the operations area of two southern Ontario airports. The tribunal, which was the last jurisdiction that could prevent the project, […]

Seven women with distinguished or burgeoning careers in aviation were honoured at the eighth Elsie MacGill Northern Lights Award gala in Vaughan, near Toronto. Sponsored by Porter Airlines, the evening began with keynote speech by […]

A Waterloo aviation enthusiast has tracked down an airframe in Nanaimo that was significant in his youth in Pakistan. Now Sameer Haqqi is hoping the local aviation comunity will help him restore the stripped shell […]

A young Saskatchewan pilot is the first Canadian recipient of the Ben Wiplinger Memorial Seaplane Rating Scholarship. Colin Fink is just out of high school but is already building time on a Cessna 170 to […]

Luke Penner, of Steinbach, Manitoba, won the sportsman category at the U.S. National Aerobatics Championship but he didn’t get to take home the trophy. Second place finisher Cory Johnson was named the winner because the […]

The federal government quietly changed the so-called “five-year rule” for pilots in August and the Canadian Federal Pilots Association isn’t happy about it. Before Aug. 23, pilots couldn’t let more than five years go by […]

A year after unsuccessful drives by flight attendants and pilots to form unions at WestJet, the pro-union forces have regrouped amid law changes that should make the next effort easier. Last year, the union forces […]

Viking Air has completed the acquisition of Bombardier’s iconic line of amphibious water bomber designs. The company announced Monday that it now holds the type certificates to the CL-215, CL-215T and CL-415 aircraft and all […]

There were three fatal light plane crashes last week in Canada, one of the toughest weeks in recent memory. On Sunday, two passengers on a Cessna 206 died when the aircraft crashed in northern Quebec. […]

A class action lawsuit filed in Saskatchewan alleges that WestJet and Air Canada colluded in levying baggage fees for domestic flight in 2014. The suit says it’s an unlikely coincidence that the two airlines announced […]

A Swedish group has awarded its Environmental Product Declaration to the Bombardier CSeries airliner adding credence to one of the company’s biggest selling points for the aircraft. The International EPD System says the average CSeries […]

She’s one of 14 indigenous pilots working for an indigenous airline but Melissa Haney is the first woman captain. The pilot flew an Air Inuit Dash-8 to her home town of Inukjuaq to a hero’s […]

A House of Commons Committee has issued its report on the state of the RCAF and it doesn’t paint a very encouraging picture. Decades of political wrangling and procurement paralysis have led to a situation […]

An Okanagan Valley man who called in a bomb threat against a WestJet flight in 2014 will spend a year in jail for what he admits was a “stupid” idea. Michael Howells, 37, was late […]