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Nav Canada is proposing that aircraft flying in most controlled airspace be equipped with ADS-B by as early as Jan. 1, 2023. In an email response to a personal inquiry by Canadian Aviator columnist Rich […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has unveiled a sweeping set of compensation and service standards for passengers who are bumped, delayed or have their flights cancelled. The measures will be implemented in two phases, the first […]

By John Chalmers On May 16 at Bombardier’s Laurent Beaudoin Completion Centre at the Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame installed five new members at the Hall’s 46th annual induction ceremonies […]

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Lockheed Martin appears to be betting on its F-35 to be Canada’s new fighter aircraft because it recently renewed a lucrative contract with Winnipeg’s Magellan Aerospace. The company builds the horizontal tail assemblies for the […]

Canadian pilot Patrick Forseth died along with four American passengers in a Cherokee Six crash along the shore of a Honduras island on Saturday. The plane went down after taking off from Roatan, on the […]

There are still tickets available for the annual convention of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society which takes place May 22-25 at John Abbott College in the village of Ste. Anne de Bellevue, just west of […]

Nav Canada is adopting a time-based separation system for aircraft arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport in a bid to maintain runway capacity during bad weather. The system, called Intelligent Approach, was developed by British tech […]

The first of 16 CC-295 search and rescue aircraft has rolled off the Airbus assembly line in Spain and should be in the RCAF’s hands by the end of the year. The aircraft, an SAR […]

The crew of a Buffalo Airways DC-3 (C-GJKM) was described as “safe” after a forced landing north of Hay River on Friday. The aircraft departed Hay River for Yellowknife at 7:41 a.m. and the crew […]

Search and rescue personnel were dispatched to the ELT signal from a Cessna 182 that triggered about 8:45 a.m. Saturday about 50 nautical miles north of Smithers, B.C. and it’s confirmed it came from a […]

Bombardier has consolidated its aviation business under one umbrella company called Bombardier Aviation. The move will result in the closure of plants in Belfast and Morocco, which manufacture aerostructures. Bombardier has been on a selling […]

Centennial College has formally opened its Downsview Campus Centre for Aerospace and Aviation at the former site of de Havilland Canada’s pioneering facilities in the heart of Toronto. Although students have been attending classes and […]

WestJet opened the doors on a $50 million hangar at Calgary International Airport that will accommodate its new flagship Boeing 787 aircraft. The 125,000 square foot hangar will be the maintenance hub for WestJet’s Dreamliner […]

Air Canada passengers heading from Montreal to Barcelona and Paris might be surprised by the Middle Eastern hospitality that awaits them onboard the A330-200s that will take them to Europe. Air Canada has arranged wet […]