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A year ago, Bombardier was the fourth largest airliner manufacturer in the world and earlier this week it ceased to be one. The company announced it had sold its CRJ business to Mitsubishi for $550 […]

By Jean-Pierre Bonin A total of 143,409 aviation aficionados attended the Bagotville International Air Show last weekend. There was no admission charged and the caused an unprecedented crush of more than 93,000 on Saturday so […]

Longview Aviation Capital has become Canada’s largest exhibitor at the Paris Air Show this year with its recent acquisition of airliner and air tanker programs from Bombardier. The company, which includes the newly revived De […]

Friday evening traffic was snarled in Surrey, B.C., just east of Vancouver, when a Cessna 152 Aerobat made an emergency landing on one of the area’s busiest commuter routes. The pilot reported an issue with […]

A flying eye care hospital made public relations stops in Ottawa and Toronto this month to spread the word about the unique services it provides. The Orbis MD-10 widebody, which spends most of the year […]

Bombardier is reportedly in talks to hive off the last of its commercial aircraft business. The CRJ program used to be the bread and butter of the company’s aviation division but it’s now losing money […]

The De Havilland name returned to aviation earlier this week as Longview Aviation Capital Corp. formally took ownership of Bombardier’s Dash-8 program and immediately went back to the aircraft’s roots. The current iteration, the Q400, […]

A young Kelowna inventor has come up with an affordable video system that serves as a flight data recorder for light aircraft. Ephraim Nowak, 26, has created a “computer vision system” that records readings from […]

A Buffalo Airways DC-3 finally returned to the Hay River Airport last week, covering the five nautical miles it was short of the runway on a barge and on a flatbed trailer. The aircraft, which […]

Air Georgian says it will appeal an Ontario court decision to dismiss its $10 million libel suit against a former pilot who wrote a book about his time with the airline. The National Post is […]

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 […]