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Women of Aviation Week is coming together and is set for the week of March 3-9. Organizer (and Canadian Aviator columnist) Mireille Goyer said at least 10 events on three continents have been announced and […]

Rafale in the Fight RCAF Commander Lieut. Gen. Yvan Blondin got a first-hand look at one of the contenders for Canada’s new fighter when he got a ride in a Dassault RAFALE during a joint […]

In early December, WestJet and Walt Disney World unveiled a flying mural for the Orlando theme park that is the foundation of an extended partnership between the two. WestJet and Disney have partnered on vacation […]

Air Canada will get the first of 37 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in March but while the aircraft is mainly designed for medium and long-haul routes, passengers on milk runs between Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto will […]

Retired astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield entertained and informed a Hollywood audience on late-night television Monday as he matched veteran host Conan O’Brien joke for joke and double entendre for double entendre during a refreshingly civilized […]

A Bearskin Airlines Metroliner (C-FFZN) crashed near the Red Lake, Ontario airport late Sunday. Five people have been confirmed dead and there were two survivors. The flight originated in Sioux Lookout. Kenoraonline.com reported that the […]

What started as a neighbourhood noise complaint has become a B.C. Supreme Court decision that could have far-reaching implications for the fledgling drone industry. Justice Frank Cole effectively ruled in late October that remote control […]

U.S. authorities are scrambling to explain how the crash of a Canadian-registered Cessna 172  went unnoticed at Nashville International Airport for up to six hours. One of several 172s operated by the Windsor Flying Club […]

Jurisdictional quicksand and the perils of human endeavours in Antarctica may combine to make recovery of the bodies of three Canadians from the wreckage of their Twin Otter impossible. Only the tail and part of […]

Bombardier flew the first example of the CSeries Sept. 17 and everything seemed to go well. The aircraft departed Mirabel just before 10 a.m. local time and the aircraft was flown to 12,500 feet. Bombardier’s […]

Canada’s best amateur pilot for 2013 is Takashi Hirose, an Algonquin College student who flies out of the Ottawa Flying Club. He was one of nine finalists taking part in the Webster Memorial Trophy Competition, […]

Air Canada is considering buying Bombardier CSeries aircraft to replace its aging fleet of short-haul planes. During a ribbon cutting at Air Canada’s new operations centre in Brampton, Ont. Tuesday, Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu […]

A Buffalo Airways DC-3 made a belly landing short of the runway at Yellowknife Airport on Monday afternoon and it appears no one was injured. The flight to Hay River is known as “the sked” […]

A Canadian company took centre stage at the biggest airshow on earth Wednesday. It’s the 50th anniversary of the PT6 turboprop engine and Montreal-area manufacturer Pratt &Whitney occupied Phillips 66 Plaza at AirVenture 2013. The […]