Aviator Newsletter - 521- Apr20 (Apr 2024)
View this email in your browser Canadian Aviator Magazine. Weekly Update - Issue 521 - Apr 20, 2024 Featured News   Canada’s First Control Tower Celebrates Anniversary   It was in 1939 that the first air traffic control tower was built in Canada, and Nav Canada is celebrating its 85th anniversary at the Saint-Hubert airport. Within a year of its opening, the tower’s workload increased dramatically in 1940 as the airport in the Montreal subur

Aviator Newsletter - 520- Apr13 (Apr 2024)
View this email in your browser Canadian Aviator Magazine. Weekly Update - Issue 520 - Apr 13, 2024 Featured News   Canada Unveils New Defence Strategy   While much of the country was focussed on the total solar eclipse sweeping across central and eastern Canada last Monday (Apr. 8), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, accompanied by Defence Minister Bill Blair and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, announced an updated defence strategy, the previous

Aviator Newsletter - 519- Apr06 (Apr 2024)
View this email in your browser Canadian Aviator Magazine. Weekly Update - Issue 519 - Apr 06, 2024 Featured News   Air Canada Sends Heavy Maintenance to Chinese Company   “It’s a head scratcher, for sure.” Global News reported the comment by former CSIS senior analyst Phil Gurski upon hearing about a five-year contract Air Canada signed last September with aircraft maintenance company HAECO Hong Kong. According to HAECO’s press release published

Aviator Newsletter - 518- Mar30 (Mar 2024)
View this email in your browser Canadian Aviator Magazine. Weekly Update - Issue 518 - Mar 30, 2024 Featured News   Last Flying Martin Mars Finds Retirement Home   Thanks in part to a grant of $250,000 from the British Columbia provincial government, the last Martin Mars flying boat to see commercial service will be transferred from current owners The Coulson Group to the B.C. Aviation Museum later this year. The  Hawaii Mars will be ma