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An Ontario pilot had a lot of things going for him when something went wrong with his ERCO Ercoupe over Lake Michigan on July 18. The pilot, identified as Robert Kelly, set the little airplane […]

A Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday shows how just a little slip of the tongue can potentially lead to disaster. In the report, investigators say a little non-standard phraseology from a controller at Ottawa […]

Cubcrafters, of Yakima, Washington, has announced it will build a special version of its successful Carbon Cub for the Canadian market. The Carbon Cub CA will feature a Canadian-built engine and all the modern updates […]

Bombardier shares dipped below $2 in trading last week after some reports that another important development program is “under review.” The company is reportedly having second thoughts about its Global 7000 and 8000 big business […]

An engine from an RCAF Liberator bomber that crashed near Chilliwack in 1945 has been hoisted off a mountainside and will become a permanent memorial to the loss and hardship of war. Liberator KK241 left […]

A Nova Scotia law firm has launched a $12 million class action lawsuit on behalf of 133 passengers aboard an Air Canada A320 that crashed at Stanfield International Airport near Halifax in March. MacGilivray Injury […]

Toronto City Council’s executive committee is hoping the city will be able to pick up where Transport Canada has left off in regulating the use of unmanned aerials systems (UAS) On Tuesday the committee directed […]

The Transportation Safety Board has concluded that the loss of power in one engine led to the crash of a Bearskin Airlines Metroliner near Red Lake Airport in November of 2013. The TSB’s final report […]

  The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association is asking all Canadian pilots to let Transport Canada know that its Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) to aerodrome regulations will “place undue hardship on small aerodrome and […]

A Piper Lance flown by a Sudbury lawyer disintegrated in midair, likely due to extreme aerodynamic forces, before it crashed in the Northern Ontario wilderness according to a Transportation Safety Board investigator. Leo Arseneau. 64, […]

Pilots of an RCAF Chinook helicopter were blamed for the loss of their $45 million aircraft in a landing accident that also injured nine soldiers in Afghanistan in May of 2011. “The investigation concluded that […]

Helicopter pilot James Kitchen was awarded the Medal of Bravery by Governor General David Johnston on Monday. Kitchen and his colleague Will Ward were in Iqaluit on March 13, 2011 when they heard that a hunter […]

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating whether a Canadian aircraft that crashed in Spokane, Washington last Sunday, eventually killing the pilot, was misfueled at a local airport. Michael Clements was pulled from the […]

Transport Canada Director General Martin Eley says his department is committed to making personal flotation devices mandatory for floatplane passengers and crew but finding the right fit isn’t easy. In an interview with the Vancouver […]