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More travellers are taking advantage of the convenience of Billy Bishop Airport in downtown Toronto. The airport is now the ninth busiest in Canada and set traffic records for June, July and August and is […]

A bent and corroded hunk of what looks like scrap metal is getting the undivided attention of a team of restoration experts at the Canada Air and Space Museum as a link to one of […]

Canada’s CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft are no strangers to long trips, but the final journey of a recently retired airframe will no doubt make a big impression on a lot of people. The four-engine turboprop, […]

To those who have known peace their entire lives, the loud aircraft at an air show are the sound of freedom but for those who have fled war they can trigger panic and terror. With […]

A routine go-around by an Encore crew turned into a breathless account of a near-death experience by a Saskatoon passenger who told the CBC he may never fly again because of it. Desmond Short was […]

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will make their only appearance outside the U.S. this weekend as they open the Canadian International Airshow for the first time in 15 years. The country’s largest and one of […]

It’s been 20 years since the peace of picturesque Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia was shattered by Canada’s worst aviation disaster. Swiss Air Flight 111 hit the shallow waters off the community so hard on the […]

Innovators keep finding new ways to increase both the longevity and utility of the Boeing 737-200 and Mid Canada Mod Center has brought one of the classic airliners into the modern age of avionics. The […]

An RCMP dive team is expected to attempt the recovery of a Cessna 180 that crashed 59 years ago on a northern Saskatchewan lake with two men on board. Pilot Ray Gran and conservation officer […]

Registration is now open for Aireon Alert, a free global tracking system that can provide up-to-the-second position reports of any airline aircraft equipped with 1090mHz ADS-B. Aerion, which is majority owned by Nav Canada, is […]

Crews have recovered the first model of the Avro Arrow from Lake Ontario. The models, which were used to record the flight characteristics of the CF-105 in free flight tests in the 1950s, were propelled […]

Bombardier now builds the largest capacity turboprop airliner after Transport Canada approved a 90-seat interior configuration for the Q400. “With increasing growth in the number of passengers per departure in the turboprop market, we are […]

The pilot of the 1930s vintage biplane that crashed shortly after  the Abbotsford Airshow last week has been identified as John Sessions, the founder of the Historic Flight Foundation and an experienced pilot. He and […]

Heavy smoke from forest fires have disrupted airline schedules and virtually ended most general aviation traffic in much of B.C.  Smoke blanketed the interior of B.C. late Friday and many GA airports were reporting visibility […]

The newly-formed Canadian Warbird Operator Conference (CWOC), a not-for-profit organization based in Ontario, aims to fill a void in Canada by organizing a conference in Ottawa from October 18 to 20 that brings together Canadian […]