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Airbus has started making A220s in Mobile, Alabama as the Bombardier-developed former CSeries airliner gains traction in orders and popularity with passengers and crews. The Mobile plant will build A220s destined for the U.S. market, […]

An increase in the number of conflicts between manned aircraft and drones has been recorded this year. There were 85 that met Transport Canada’s definition of a reportable incident in that they posed “a risk […]

Hypoxia likely played a key role in the mysterious crash of a Calgary survey company’s Piper Navajo in the mountains west of Calgary in August of 2018 according to the Transportation Safety Board. Investigators said […]

A Montreal company is trying to block the sale of Air Transat to Air Canada by buying 19.5 percent of Transat AT class B voting shares. Group Mach, a real estate developer, says the deal […]

Members of the Canadian military and employees of the Department of National Defence have been told in no uncertain terms to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves about which aircraft should become […]

Four people were killed and five injured in the crash of a Seair Cessna 208 Caravan floatplane off the west coast of B.C. on Friday. The chartered plane was on its way from Port Hardy […]

The first tangible evidence of the merger of First Air and Canadian North rolled out in the form of a freshly painted ATR 42 this week but the sometimes painful process of creating a single […]

Canada’s airline industry is characterized as a hotbed of sexual harassment, infidelity and gender discrimination in an uncomfortable workplace where male pilots play a lead role in creating the toxic environment according to a Global […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has chosen a Canadian homebuilt that has weathered a half dozen prairie winters as its annual sweepstakes aircraft. AOPA editor Dave Hirschmann traveled from AOPA headquarters in relatively balmy […]

There have been at as many as 13 people killed in four fatal crashes of DHC-2 Beavers in the last two weeks, three of them in Canada, but it would appear the plane’s reputation as […]

Pilots of an Air Canada Boeing 777-200 had little warning of the violent turbulence that injured 37 passengers and crew over the Pacific on Thursday. Passengers described a chaotic scene on board the aircraft, which […]

An RCAF search and rescue C-130 already in the air on another search responded to the fatal crash of a floatplane near Chibougamau, about 700 km. north of Montreal on Friday. Three of the four […]

The process of merging the North’s two largest airlines is officially under way, two months after the federal government approved their joining. Faced with increasing pressure from mainstream airlines competing on some of the most […]

The aircraft formerly known as CSeries is on solid footing after a year under the control of Airbus according Airbus. The Airbus Canada Limited Partnership was formed on July 1, 2018 giving Airbus majority control […]