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Canadian aircraft cabin communications innovator TrueNorth Avionics has been acquired by Satcom Direct, a huge worldwide satellite communications company. The acquisition was announced at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Orlando in early November. […]

A unique library on a special chapter of Canadian aviation has been saved thanks to an outpouring of support for Canadian Aviator founder and current columnist Jack Schofield and his collection of books. A warehouse […]

For the second time in as many months, Air Canada passengers have been hurt by a hurtling beverage cart. In the latest incident, a cart careened down the aisle of an Embraer E190 as it […]

After several months of work, Billy Bishop City Centre Airport’s runway 06-24 has been re-opened after being rebuilt. The runway rehabilitation, which also included repaving 08-26 was the first phase of a three-year plan to […]

Rosella Bjornson, the pioneering young woman who became North America’s  first female airline pilot in 1973 was honoured at the Alberta Aviation Museum last weekend. Bjornson took the right seat of a Transair Fokker F-28 on […]

First Flight for Global 7000 Bombardier says all went as expected with the first flight of its flagship Global 7000 business jet last week. The big airplane took off from Bombardier’s private field at Downsview […]

A New Zealand-based company with partners in China has bought the type certificate to Found Aircraft’s final and most ambitious design. Pacific Aerospace will build the E350 Expedition initially at its plant in Hamilton, NZ […]

The British Columbia Aviation Council’s Annual Silver Wings Awards Banquet, held at the Vancouver Convention Centre, overlooking the seaplane base on Coal Harbour. Seven award winners were as follows: Entrepreneur of the Year in Aviation, Ken […]

The Canadian Ninety-Nines have awarded their Canadian Award in Aviation to the Saskatchewan Aviation Historical Society Inc., located at John G. Diefenbaker International Airport in Saskatoon. The group will use the $2,000 award “to enhance […]

The Transportation Safety Board says it will hold aviation authorities and agencies to account for ignoring its recommendations in a new proactive stance that will undoubtedly make some waves. Chair Kathy Fox said in a […]

The Transportation Safety Board has renewed calls for collision avoidance systems for light aircraft after a highly publicized mid-air collision near Fort McMurray in June, 2015. Video of the Cessna 185 floatplane involved in the […]

Authorities are investigating why a British Airways A380 diverted more than 1,000 miles to Vancouver on Monday night and the entire crew left 400 puzzled passengers in the aircraft while they checked in at hospitals. […]

On the tenth anniversary of its disruptive entry to the Central Canada airline market, Porter Airlines is looking at modest growth with an emphasis on existing markets. By now, CEO Robert Deluce had hoped to […]

That beautiful photo of the Snowbirds, Breitling Jet Team and the Canadian Forces CF-18 demo plane flying in formation over Lake Ontario that we featured last week had an error in the accompanying story. The […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has asked his senior staff to investigate making cockpit voice and flight data recorders mandatory in unspecified aircraft that are not now required to have them. “I think that it’s a […]