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A Vancouver Island resident who flew 36 missions over occupied France in the Second World War has been awarded France’s highest honour. Edward Vaughn, 96, of Saanich, was awarded the French Legion of Honour by […]

The RCAF, which wrung more than 50 years of service from its T-33 and Sea King fleets (and will hit that with the CF-18) is also joining select company with its executive transport fleet. The […]

WestJet has 43 Boeing 737NG aircraft that fall under an FAA airworthiness directive and it says it will be able to comply with the AD with minimal disruption to its schedule. Last Thursday, the U.S. […]

Transport Canada has certified Bombardier’s latest business jet models as the leaned down company focuses on the last vestige of its once-broad aviation portfolio and the one that has been the most consistent moneymaker. The […]

The severe turbulence incident that injured dozens of passengers and crew on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Australia last July was both unpredictable and not the fault of anyone according to the Transportation […]

A couple of months after buying Bombardier’s regional jet business, Mitsubishi announced it’s opening an office near Montreal to focus on its Spacejet small airliner. “As a Japanese company with a global market, we are […]

The top prize for women taking part in next March’s Women of Aviation Worldwide Week is a $10,000 CAD scholarship for qualifying female student pilots to continue their flight training. The next week-long effort, March […]

Nav Canada will stop selling printed copies of the Canada Air Pilot (CAP) a year from now. The final print version will be produced for the Sept. 10, 2020 interval. The CAP is already available […]

While the world fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft have remained firmly grounded for six months, Air Canada flew one of its MAXes on 11 training hops in August and early September according to Reuters. […]

At least three Arctic airports have been shipped unusable jet fuel and it’s affecting air service to those communities. An out-of-spec batch of fuel ended up in Paulatuk, Ulukhaktok and Sachs Harbour during the normal […]

Diamond Aircraft’s Diamond Flight Centre is partnering with Fanshawe College, of London, Ont. to create a flight school designed to produce 80 commercial pilots a year with a variety of business skills. Students at the […]

Another relatively inexpensive ADS-B Out option for Canadian pilots who fly to the U.S. should be available soon in Canada. The FAA has granted supplementary type certificate approval to uAvionix for its tailBeacon, which replaces […]

One of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s longest and most complex restoration projects won’t result in a flying airplane. CWH has announced publicly that its Bristol Bolingbroke will be restored to ground run-up condition instead […]

Searchers appear to have found the body of a young pilot who went missing on a training flight near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Hind Barch was on a night solo flight from Mirabel to Sherbrooke  and back […]