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Viking Aircraft brought a CL-215 waterbomber to AirVenture 2018 as part of the aggressive marketing campaign to resume production of the CL-415 EAH, the modernized version of the aircraft. The bright yellow amphib attracted a […]

The Webster Trophy finalists for best amateur pilot in Canada have been announced. Representing B.C. is Daniel Shim, of Coquitlam; Alberta, Carolyn Spence; Saskatchewan, Sara Voth, of Saskatoon; Manitoba, Mark Joseph P. Dizon; Western Ontario, […]

One of the major surprises at AirVenture 2018 was the unveiling of a cleverly designed multicopter design that has been quietly under development somewhere in northern Canada for the past seven years.  Blackfly is an […]

A California teen has applied for a Guinness world record as the youngest and least experience person to fly solo but it didn’t happen as fast as he wanted it or before it should have […]

One of two flying B-29 bombers has landed in Canada for an extended tour. Fifi, the Superfortress owned by the Commemorative Air Force has spent the last week at St. Hubert, outside Montreal, giving rides […]

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has stepped in to try to keep an historic aircraft in Ontario. For decades, a retired Lancaster bomber stood on a pedestal near Ontario Place but it was removed and […]

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 […]