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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 […]

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 […]