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By John Chalmers Historian, Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame On Tuesday, July 9, 2018, western Canada’s first air mail flight of July 9, 1918, was re-enacted with a WestJet flight of a Bombardier Q400 aircraft. […]

Airbus has now assimilated the Bombardier CSeries into its product line as the A220 and announced a major order for the aircraft under its new ownership but there are reports that Boeing’s assumption of Embraer’s […]

It would appear the Canadian Union of Public Employees will represent flight attendants at WestJet as the unionization of the airline continues. CUPE has filed an application with the Canada Industrial Relations Board to represent […]

It’s been a tough weekend at the tiny Sechelt-Gibsons Airport on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast. On Friday, the pilot of a Piper Cherokee died in a crash about 1.5 km from the field. There were three […]

The 99s Eastern Division has honoured Canada’s first female CP-140 Aurora pilot with a postage stamp. Although female military pilots are commonplace now, Capt. Mary Cameron-Kelly overcame sexism and social pressure and a reluctant military […]

  Airbus says it will have order announcements and maybe a name change for its newly-acquired CSeries airliner program when the commercial and military aviation world meets at Farnborough starting July 16. Airbus took a […]

By John Chalmers, Historian, Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame Four new Members were inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame at the annual dinner and ceremonies, held this year at the Sunwest Aviation hangar at […]

Update: It has now been confirmed that two people are  confirmed dead as a result of  a plane crash that occurred about 30 kilometers northeast of  Hope B.C. Ken Umbach, a geophysicist from  Calgary along […]

The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association is holding its annual convention and trade show in Saint John, New Brunswick through Saturday. Hundreds of delegates are attending the event at the local convention centre in downtown […]

Another piece of a 62-year-old military aviation mystery was discovered in a gully in Squamish, B.C. earlier this week. A volunteer for an environmental group was picking up garbage along Government Road when he spotted […]

Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) inspectors will be fanning out at GA airports across the country starting “imminently” to take the pulse of general aviation safety. The unfortunately named “targeted inspections” will take the form […]

A WestJet Boeing 737 made an emergency landing in Calgary earlier this week after a heat sensor in the baggage hold triggered an alarm. The plane had just taken off for Vancouver when the light […]

A Saskatchewan man will head up Bearhawk Canada as the Texas planemaker expands its sales network for the popular bush plane. Mike Silvernagle will use a private air strip in Saskatchewan as headquarters for Bearhawk […]

Transport Canada says whatever fell on the cars and property of 18 people in southern B.C over the last month didn’t come from airplanes. Those who have had far-too-personal experiences with the foul-smelling substance consistently […]