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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 […]

The Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) says Canada’s new rules for drone operators address many issues but still don’t offer enough protection for commercial aircraft. Transport Canada released details of the new rules, which go into […]

Canada and Australia reached a final agreement on Canada’s purchase of 25 used F/A-18 Hornets in November but news of the formal deal didn’t leak out until last week. The first planes should be added […]

A well-financed bid by one of the founders of WestJet could upset the increasingly crowded budget airline market in Canada in 2019. Enerjet, a Calgary charter that has traditionally served the oil patch market, will […]

Bombardier’s big gamble is finally paying off but it’s doing so for Airbus. The CSeries airliner will become the financial success Bombardier always hoped it would be but as the A220. Last week, Airbus announced […]

The RCAF’s retirement of the Sea King prompted a tribute from none other than Sergei Sikorsky, the son of the inventor of the modern helicopter and Sea King designer Igor Sikorsky. The Sea King has […]