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Canada Jetlines has chosen Vancouver as its base as it enters the rapidly maturing ultra low cost carrier market. The company, which has substantial investor backing, has secured two A320 aircraft to start its service, […]

Diamond Aircraft says it intends to double its production in 2019 and needs at least 100 more workers at its London, Ontario plant and in Weiner Neustadt, Austria. The London plant is especially in the […]

The Royal Air Force Red Arrow air demonstration team will perform at least two air shows in Canada as part of a North American tour in the late summer and fall. The nine-plane team of […]

Five years after the mysterious loss of Malaysian Flight MH370, Aireon, a worldwide satellite-based tracking and air traffic control system is poised to virtually eliminate any chance of it happening again. The system, which consists […]

KF Aerospace will announce a major expansion of its facilities at Hamilton’s John C. Munro International Airport on Feb. 15. Media and dignitaries have been invited to the current hangar at 9500 Airport Road to […]

Canadian representatives will be in Fort Wainwright, Alaska on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the RCAF’s worst aviation accidents. Nine servicemen were killed and nine others survived when a C-130 crashed […]

Jazz is acquiring 26 CRJ aircraft as part of a multi-faceted agreement that will see the regional airline serving as Air Canada’s feeder line for the next 17 years. Jazz will take over 12 CRJ200s […]

WestJet is seeking $65,000 from a recovering alcoholic whose excursion off the wagon caused one of its Boeing 767s to return to Calgary on a flight to London. British resident David Stephen Young, 44, already […]

It was a covert mission designed to secretly help police find a terrorist except it kept most of the residents of Kingston, Ontario up at night for weeks. Finally, on Friday, the RCMP got their […]

An RCAF fighter pilot was fined $2,000 in a court martial for flying too low in a training exercise in which his wingman was killed. Capt. Christopher Mileusnic was leading a two-aircraft formation on Nov. […]

A bathroom break on a remote Manitoba lake turned into a search and rescue operation last week. Happy Bednarek, 72, intended to fly his ski-equipped Taylorcraft to meet friends on Sisib Lake but it was […]

WestJet is now poised to go toe-to-toe with Air Canada on international routes after it took delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 in Everett, Washington last week. The $283 million plane, named Clive Beddoe, after […]

The Airbus A220 has become the smallest airliner to be approved for 180-minute extended diversion time operations (EDTO), formerly ETOPS, and that could open up lucrative opportunities for transoceanic routes outside of the normal hubs. […]

While a lot of talk about the RCAF has centred around its aging fighter fleet, the Air Force has been busy using the aircraft it has to defend Canada and its allies. The RCAF announced […]

Entrepreneurs, war heroes and a long-time aerospace executive will be inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in Montreal in May. “In 2019, Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame will honour five individuals who have made […]