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A GoFundMe campaign launched two weeks ago to benefit an injured Victoria flight instructor has reached almost a quarter of its goal. The online fundraiser for Kristen Ursel totalled $23,000 by Wednesday with a goal […]

An iconic DC-3 will become the oldest aircraft to fly around the world this year and it will make a stop in Toronto Breitling’s DC-3 is 77 years old and took off from Geneva March […]

A Prescott, Ontario woman has become the youngest female Boeing 737 pilot in Canada after she took the right seat of a Sunwing aircraft earlier this year at just 22. Siobhan O’Hanlon was among a […]

WestJet stepped up immediately to pay for repairs to a Calgary couple’s home that was hit by toilet ice earlier this week. The chunk of ice went through the roof, ceiling and ended up in […]

Two stranded Nunavut hunters defied incredible odds by catching the attention of a crew member aboard an RCAF aircraft that just happened to be flying overhead. Tyler Amarualik and 15-year-old Eugene Gibbons were with Lloyd […]

Canada’s eight largest airlines appear to have headed off mandatory random drug and alcohol testing for flight crews but Transport Minister Marc Garneau has reminded them they’re being watched. After a Sunwing captain passed out […]

Bombardier has hit back at allegations by Brazil-based Embraer that a $372.5 million loan from the Canadian government violates international trade laws. In an op-ed article published in the Globe and Mail, Mike Nadolski, Bombardier’s […]

A Nova Scotia company has invented a window film that protects pilots against laser attacks. Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI) nannounced this week that it has reached a deal with Airbus who will test the material […]

Two leading defence analysts have concluded that the federal government’s plan to buy 18 Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets as a stopgap measure in the tortured fighter replacement program will actually weaken Canada’s air defences and […]

Mount Royal University in Calgary temporarily grounded all its aircraft Tuesday after two of its instructors died in the crash of their Tecnam P2006T northeast of the city on Monday. They were identified Wednesday as […]

Some stranded Air Canada passengers are singing the praises of a WestJet pilot who bought them pizza after their own airline told them there was no food available. The unidentified WestJet pilot called a local […]

Airbus has awarded the contract to provide a full suite of training services for the C295 fixed wing search and rescue program. The contract could be worth as much as $300 million if all the […]

The remarkable journey of a PBY-5A from the edge of a northern lake to a touchstone for Canadian aviation history will end, and begin, June 18 with the official first flight of C-FNJE at Fairview […]

The Canadian Arctic Aviation Tour has begun a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for an ambitious air show tour of dozens of northern communities this summer. Supporters are invited to “buy a kilometre” of the […]

Aviation companies in Iqaluit rallied to help a Swiss Air International maintenance crew navigate some unfamiliar territory this week. On Feb. 1, A SwissAir Boeing 777 on its way to Los Angeles from Zurich had […]