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In a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force, a Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Mk. X bomber will tour Canada this summer, appearing in several air shows. While most of […]

Canadian Army General Wayne Eyre, Chief of Defence Staff, is set to retire this summer, according to an announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office Friday (Jan. 12). Last fall, the holders of the purse strings […]

Bombardier has been awarded a contract to sell at least one Global 6500 jet to the U.S. Army, according to an announcement on Wednesday (Jan. 3). Included in the contract is an option for the […]

As a follow-up to last week’s report of the crash of an Air Tindi de Havilland Twin Otter while attempting to land on the frozen surface of Lac le Gras in the Northwest Territories on […]

Airbus announced the sale of 40 additional A220-300s to the Lufthansa Group, whose Swiss subsidiary was one of the manufacturer’s first customers in 2016. “With today’s order for 40 additional Airbus A220s, we are continuing […]

In what is considered to be the excellent execution of a rescue operation, the two-person crew and eight passengers of a chartered Air Tindi Twin Otter were recovered after their aircraft crashed into terrain short […]

  In an op-ed published in the Globe and Mail on Wednesday (Dec. 27), Harvard professor Jeffrey Frankel suggests that the FAA is ill-served to provide air traffic control services in the United States. Frankel […]

Bombardier was presented with a most welcome Christmas gift in the form of an order for 12 Challenger 3500 aircraft, valued at U$326.4 million. A much-improved version of its predecessor, the Challenger 350, the 3500 […]

CubCrafters of Yakima, Washington delivered its 1000th aircraft to Bridger Aerospace of Belgrade, Montana. Bridger operates, among other aircraft, a fleet of six Canadair CL-415 ‘Super-Scooper’ turboprop aerial tanker fire-fighting aircraft and four piston-powered CL-215s. […]

  The government of Canada made simultaneous announcements on both the East and West Coast earlier this week that it has entered into a contract with U.S. manufacturer General Atomics for the purchase of a […]

According to a story published this week in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, the federal government received reports prior to the decision to sole-source the CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft replacement to Boeing for the P-8A […]

October 11, 2023, was an important date in the long and storied career of the de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo, for this was the last trip of what served as a workhorse for the RCAF […]

Draganfly, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has been nominated in eight different categories for awards by The Droning Company of the U.S., which serves as a clearing house for those looking for the services of a drone […]

Pratt & Whitney Canada, owned by RTX (formerly known as the Raytheon Technologies Corporation), marks 60 years of producing the PT6 families of aircraft turbine engines. During the design’s lifetime, more than 64 thousand of […]

  Defence minister Bill Blair announced this week the establishment of the Canadian Military Colleges Review Board and named the five “external education and culture experts” and the two Department of National Defence-employed members who […]