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A Winnipeg man who wants to start a “national” pilot school for unmanned aerial systems operators is asking Transport Canada to licence UAS pilots. Dale George, CEO of Buoyant Aircraft Systems, a company trying to […]

First Air earned some world media attention this week after the Toronto Star reported that its fleet of aircraft are equipped with a flight tracking system made by FLYHT, of Calgary. In the three days […]

  Canada has bought another C-17 and increasing the fleet by 25 percent will add exponentially more capability to the RCAF’s transport command. Defense Minister Rob Nicholson made the announcement early Friday at CFB Trenton […]

  by Ken Lin, Social Media Editor Newmarket, Ontario pilot Gaetan Boudreau arrived at Brampton Flying Club Dec. 16 anticipating a “safety briefing” with his flight instructor Madeline Koby. Boudreau, who soloed earlier this year at […]

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame has selected four new inductees and there’s a military flavour to this year’s crop. The inductees are Arthur Roy Brown, Jim McBride, O.B. Philp and George Miller. Brown was best known for […]

Transport Canada has published the advisory circular laying out the liberalization of rules on the commercial use of small unmanned aerial systems (UAS). As expected, two exemptions allow restricted use of very small (less than […]

Pratt and Whitney Canada has received a $300 million “repayable contribution” from the federal government that it says will be used to research new technologies for engines it produces at Longueuil, QC and Mississauga, ON. […]

COPA President Kevin Psutka will retire in 2015 and the search is on for his replacement. COPA announced the move on Thursday and noted Psutka’s service. “Kevin’s extraordinary vision and leadership guided COPA through times […]

The wind storm that blew through southern Ontario on Monday heavily damaged Burlington Airpark but amazingly spared most of the airplanes. The 60-knot winds blew nine hangars up and over the row of hangars immediately […]

WestJet flight attendants, who are not unionized, nevertheless have rejected a new deal from the airline and the airline says it will work to resolve the impasse. More than 90 percent of flight attendants voted […]

Transport Canada is working through service delays and implementing internal measures to try to speed up the various approvals, exemptions and certificates that keep the aviation industry running. In a question-and-answer session at the 80th […]

The heads of two of Canada’s biggest aviation groups were to appear before a Senate committee to oppose a controversial move that would allow the minister of transport to dictate the scope and terms of […]

Various authorities are planning to create a new system to help track down those who shine lasers at aircraft. At the Air Transport Association of Canada meeting in Vancouver this week, delegates heard on an […]

It appears there will be labour peace in the cockpits of the country’s two main airlines for the foreseeable future after a tentative deal was struck between WestJet and its pilots on Tuesday. About 1,300 […]