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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 […]

Bombardier says the flight test aircraft of largest CSeries model, the CS300, has been cleared for takeoff by Transport Canada and could have its first test hop as early as Friday (Feb. 27/15). The company had […]

It’s not often a Twin Otter is mistaken for a spaceship but a series of circumstances led to it being cast in that role last week. A social media frenzy erupted after someone posted images […]

There will be no made-in-Canada option for the RCAF’s new fixed wing search and rescue aircraft. Viking Air, of Victoria, B.C. has confirmed it has withdrawn from the competition and is no longer offering to […]

A Canadian pilot’s pleas for his beloved Cessna 172 fell on deaf ears as a U.S. judge ordered the aircraft’s forfeit as part of the pilot’s sentence for illegally flying a Canadian woman into the U.S. […]

Canadian Red Bull racer Pete McLeod has announced he’s now being sponsored by GPS and avionics giant Garmin. The announcement was made on the eve of the first Red Bull race of the season in […]

Bombardier has fired CEO Pierre Beaudoin and given him the largely ceremonial post of executive chairman, a position held by his father Laurent for the past 30 years. Replacing Beaudoin is Alain Bellemare, who left […]