Canada: Police drone hits plane approaching runway; ‘major damage’ reported
An aircraft attempting to land at Buttonville, an airport with proximity to Toronto’s suburbs, sustained “major damage” after being hit…
An aircraft attempting to land at Buttonville, an airport with proximity to Toronto’s suburbs, sustained “major damage” after being hit…
Drone services, hardware, and training company Volatus Aerospace has been granted a special certificate by regulator Transport Canada to operate beyond visual line of…
Canadian aviation authorities have issued a Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) certificate to drone logistics firm Drone Delivery Canada. The Toronto-based…
Iris Automation says its onboard Casia collision avoidance product for commercial drones has been selected for testing in Transport Canada’s…
Transport Canada has given its approval to Ontario Power Generation to operate inspection drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS),…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released its report on a 2021 collision between a Cessna 172N plane approaching…
Canadian Unmanned Traffic Management and fleet management company AirMarket, in partnership with mobility and IT Company Telus, have carried out…
Transport Canada (TC) has announced the formation of CanaDAC – where those last three letters stand for Drone Advisory Committee….
An online drone Flight Review network is launching in Canada. It aims to make things easier for drone operators seeking…
There’s no doubt drones are here to stay. But as their roles increase, regulators are addressing a more comprehensive vision…
We believe rules are there for a reason. And both the Federal Aviation Administration and its Canadian equivalent, Transport Canada,…
It may be Friday the 13th, but it’s also National Drone Safety Awareness day in Canada. It’s Canada’s inaugural drone…
A drone company in Canada has been granted a one-year permit for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights. Transport…
Today, Transport Canada granted the first certificate for beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) for special flight drone operations to MVT Geo-solutions, in partnership…
Are you planning to fly your drone in Canada this summer? Well maybe watch this video from Peter McKinnon before…
Earlier this year, new rules were announced for ‘larger’ drones (250 grams to 55 Lbs) in Canada. The announcement was…
New rules for Canadians flying ‘larger’ drones. When you fly a drone of a certain size (250 grams to 55…
Canadian authorities are looking into a suspected drone collision with a Cessna 172 that caused $4,000 USD in damage. The drone incident occurred near a British Columbia Airport. During a training flight, the Cessna 172, owned by Abbotsford-based Chinook Helicopters, was making its final approach at Chilliwack Airport when its left wing collided with the suspected unmanned aerial vehicle. The collision “left blue bits on the wing” of the Cessna, according to the flight school owner Cathy Press.
Transport Canada granted permission to the company Drone Delivery Canada to start testing drone deliveries in the Northern Canadian Communities of Moose Factory and Moosonee, Ontario. Toronto based Drone Delivery Canada made its first successful flights earlier this month in a partnership with Moose Cree First Nation. The partnership aims to establish a drone delivery service that would bring food, medical supplies and other necessities to the island of Moose Factory in the Moose River.
DJI just released an official statement on the report of a plane striking a drone in Quebec that we wrote about earlier today. Currently, it is not known (or at least not officially) what kind of drone and what brand exactly has collided with the commercial airliner. However with DJI being the largest drone manufacturer, chances are, it may have been one of their products.
On Sunday the Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau said that for the first time in Canada a drone had collided with a passenger airplane. The commercial Skyjet plane was struck as it was approaching Jean Lesage airport in Quebec City on Thursday. Garneau confirmed that the airplane only sustained minor damage and was able to land safely. He was extremely relieved that nobody got hurt.