Alberta Aviation

• Flair CEO says airline flying high — enough to stave off ‘growing pains,’ large loans

  Flair Airlines CEO Stephen Jones says his budget carrier is at last running a smooth operation propelled by high passenger numbers.

  Canada

  Aug 23, 2023
  
• Kenney announces new airplane manufacturing plant east of Calgary

  East of Calgary will be home to a new airplane manufacturing plant that will employ approximately 1,500 people.

  Economy

  Sep 21, 2022
  
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• Piece of Lethbridge history lands in city

  A piece of Lethbridge's aviation history has returned to southern Alberta.

  Features

  Nov 30, 2021
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• 4 people injured after private plane crashes at Westlock Regional Airport north of Edmonton

  Emergency crews responded to the Westlock Regional Airport after a plane carrying four people flipped and crashed at the airport north of Edmonton late Sunday morning.

  Canada

  Oct 10, 2021
• 1 man killed, 1 critically injured in Lacombe County plane crash in central Alberta

  RCMP officers arrived at the remote crash site in Lacombe County to find the pilot had died and the passenger had suffered grave injuries.

  Canada

  Oct 10, 2021
• Alberta air tanker fleet helping in U.S. as Canada sees drop in wildfires

  There have been about 700 wildfires in Alberta this year with 32 square kilometres lost compared with the five-year average of 1,300 fires and 4,100 square kilometres burned.

  Canada

  Oct 19, 2020
• Pilot killed in crash near Thorsby remembered as ‘skilled, beloved’ Alberta aviation industry member

  "Ken is a guy who is really well-known and really beloved in the air show industry," said his friend Mark Miller on Sunday.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2020
• ‘Wonderful little bird’: Alberta man retrieves his first plane 48 years later

  At 19, Richard Reid persuaded his mother to loan him the $2,700 required to buy a vintage 1946 Aeronca Champion — two-seater plane that was sitting for sale on an airstrip.

  Features

  Mar 9, 2020
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• Time Air Historical Society hopes to land rare plane in Lethbridge

  A group of Alberta aviation enthusiasts is hoping to buy a decommissioned jet and give it a permanent home in Lethbridge.

  Dec 24, 2019
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• Cooking Lake Airport celebrates 90 years of history and adventure

  Canada's oldest operating public airport celebrated nine decades of aviation on Saturday.

  Features

  Jun 11, 2016