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The federal government has chosen the Airbus C-295 as the RCAF’s new fixed wing search and rescue (FWSAR) aircraft, replacing decades old Buffalo and C-130 aircraft. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Procurement Minister Judy Foote […]

A Woodstock, Ontario man is facing charges after allegedly smuggling a Stearman into Canada from the U.S. The man landed the vintage biplane at Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport on Oct. 12. The Canada Border Services […]

De-icing is a fact of life in Canada’s North but when the de-icing machine broke down in Cape Dorset, Nunavut last week, airline officials had no choice but to break out the mop and bucket. […]

The pilot who died in the crash of his CF-18 Hornet near Cold Lake, is being described as an excellent pilot and officer. Capt. Thomas McQueen was killed when his fighter went down during a low-level […]

Bombardier isn’t ruling out building the CS500, a larger version of the new airliner that would compete even more directly with Airbus and Boeing single-aisle planes. The comments came at the delivery ceremony for the first CS300 […]

A Boeing Stearman of considerable significance to the Langley, B.C.-area flying community has been donated to the Canadian Museum of Flight at the Langley Airport. The Stearman was owned by Skyway Air Services, the original […]

The federal government has found another way to delay actually buying a fleet of new frontline fighter aircraft but, as was inevitable, it ran out of ways to do it for free. Confirming a rumour […]

A consortium of companies is expected to begin shuttling raw ore by hybrid airship between a mine in northern Quebec and a refinery in Schefferville in 2019. Quest Rare Minerals, of Quebec, Straightline Aviation, of […]

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 […]