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General August 17, 2020 Remembering the R-100 visit to Canada

Ninety years ago, almost a million and a half Canadians looked skywards to see His Majesty’s Airship R-100 slowly sail across the sky on a 13-day visit to Quebec and Ontario.

When the global outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 9, global flight traffic began to drop drastically. Flightradar24 tracked an all-time low of total global flights on April 12, with just 46,294 flights. Flightradar24 Image

General July 28, 2020 How Flightradar24 charted COVID’s changed skies

Flightradar24 has been closely following flight traffic trends since the pandemic hit, and its users have observed some unusual flight activity, too.

General July 22, 2020 Amelia Earhart’s unfinished route

Thomas Ughan interviews Richard Gillespie of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery about the search for artifacts potentially related to the famous aviatrix’s final destination.

General July 21, 2020 Airlines in crisis: The cost of COVID-19 on the industry

What is the cost of keeping commercial air travel alive after COVID-19? Increasingly, it’s looking like more than airlines can bear.

Boeing said it will sign a binding agreement to invest in Canadian content up to 100 per cent of the contract value. That means jobs and know-how for Canadian companies like L3 Harris MAS in Mirabel (shown here), which has developed a worldwide expertise for maintaining the legacy F/A-18 Hornet. L3 MAS Photo

news July 10, 2020 Jobs at risk without sector strategy: AIAC

Aviation and aerospace representatives say government aid is urgently needed to protect high-quality employment and Canada’s standing as the world’s fifth-largest aerospace producer.

news May 15, 2019 WestJet CEO: Onex deal is good for long-term growth

WestJet president and CEO Ed Sims met with media on May 14 to address Onex Corporation’s $5 billion acquisition of the airline, a day after the deal was announced.

Military September 7, 2016 22 Wing hosts air defence exercise

For a week in August, 22 Wing personnel worked alongside 60 members of the South Carolina Army National Guard’s 263rd Army Air and Missile Defense Command and 10 civilian defence contractors to carry out air defence artillery scenarios as part of North American Aerospace Defence Command training.