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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 […]

Transport Canada had some Christmas cash for small airports across the country. Although the money was budgeted months ago, the announcements were nonetheless good news for the individual airports and a good sign that the […]

The airline whose possibly icing-related crash in northern Saskatchewan last year prompted an unusual warning from the Transportation Safety Board says it has vastly improved its de-icing capabilities at the airports it serves. West Wind […]

A Calgary aviation museum is hoping a final holiday push for donations will secure the future of a Canadian aerospace icon. The Hangar Museum has been displaying a CF-100 Canuck, owned by the city of […]

A three-year upgrade of the terminal at Billy Bishop Airport in downtown Toronto is complete and it’s now better able to handle its own success. PortsToronto said in a news release that passenger traffic has […]

Technology has always driven aerial warfare and the RCAF says it needs to adapt training to meet new challenges. So it’s postponing its signature battle exercise in the coming year. Maple Flag, which draws fighter […]

The Transportation Safety Board says aircraft frequently fly without effective de-icing and it’s calling on Transport Canada to improve de-icing services at remote airports across the country.  The TSB said it surveyed pilots across the […]

An elaborate exact replica of a CF-105 Avro Arrow fighter is now safely tucked in a hangar at Edenvale Airport as the centrepiece of the Canadian Air and Space Conservancy. The replica, faithful in every […]

Even though the case for police helicopters has been proven time and again, the normal replacement cycle of airframes sometimes hits turbulence with pennywise city council members and sometimes they need a ride along to […]

Airbus is investing in the A220 plant at the former Bombardier facilities at Mirabel Airport as it ramps up production of the former CSeries airliner according to industry blog Fliegerfaust. The company, which took over […]

The federal government is creating a new flight test centre at Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier International Airport that will be operated jointly by the Department of National Defence, Transport Canada and the National Research Council’s Flight Research […]