On March 1, 2025 Ascent Helicopters Ltd., with the support of their sub-contractor Babcock Canada, commenced providing helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) on behalf of British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) from a base base in Parksville on Vancouver Island using new Leonardo AW169s. The contract will eventually employ seven AW169s delivered to Canada between Nov 2024 and July 2025. Service commenced from bases in Parksville, Kamloops and Prince George by August 2025 with bases in Vancouver and Prince Rupert to follow. C-GSIO was training paramedics when photographed.

The first visit of an electric powered aircraft to Toronto took place on July 11 when Beta Technologies CX300, N916LF, stopped overnight at Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport (CYTZ) on its ferry flight to Oshkosh, WI for display at EAA AirVenture. This is the passenger version of the CX300 with seating for two pilots and four passengers.

Two different Beta Technologies CX300 electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) visited Billy Bishop City Centre Airport this summer. The latest visitor was N401NZ which is the fourth CX300 to fly. It only had 15 hrs total time when it departed Burlington, VT on Aug. 16 for Toronto, recharging at Rome and Rochester airports along the way. The Toronto visit included several flights with Canadian customers and partners as passengers. Later this year, N401NZ will be shipped to New Zealand for flight familiarization training with Air New Zealand, which has ordered CX300s for postal routes.

This Bell 206B JetRanger III, C-FFUJ, msn 2982, was built in 1980 and flew in the US as N1086N and N525W before it was imported to Canada by Toronto Helicopters (part of CHC) in 1989. It was subsequently operated by Canadian Helicopters and Ryan Helicopters before joining the National Helicopters fleet in October 1992. Between July 2004 and September 2005 it was leased to Skyway Helicopters. National is based in Bolton, Ontario north of Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) but flies sightseeing tours from Saint Catharines Airport (C-FFUJ) with JetRangers and LongRangers, including C-FNHB (pictured).

Two different Beta Technologies CX300 electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) visited Billy Bishop City Centre Airport this summer. The latest visitor was N401NZ which is the fourth CX300 to fly. It only had 15 hrs total time when it departed Burlington, VT on Aug. 16 for Toronto, recharging at Rome and Rochester airports along the way. The Toronto visit included several flights with Canadian customers and partners as passengers. Later this year, N401NZ will be shipped to New Zealand for flight familiarization training with Air New Zealand, which has ordered CX300s for postal routes.

Built in 1986, this Cessna Caravan is operated by Skydive the Falls from the grass runway at Windsor Airport in Youngstown, New York. The company includes a scenic aerial tour of Niagara Falls as the aircraft climbs to 13,000 feet for a tandem jump. The company also operates Cessna 182J, N3552F as a jump ship.

Calspan purchased their first Gulfstream III aircraft (N710CF) in 2011 when customers expressed a need for a systems testbed with Learjet performance in a larger airframe and to support Northrop Grumman's Next-Generation Jammer flight test program. The aircraft was modified into a systems test aircraft with engineer stations in the cabin, a reconfigurable antenna base on the top of the external fuselage, a testbed power distribution system. In 2016, Calspan added a second Gulfstream III (N721CF) to support additional contracts. It's now retired at Niagara Falls Airport without engines.

In February 2024, Niagara Helicopters placed an order for six Airbus Helicopters H130 to renew its air tourism fleet in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Airbus H130, C-GNND, is the first of the new helicopters and was registered to Niagara Helicopters on August 5, 2025 after completion by Airbus Helicopters Canada in Fort Erie, Ontario. The new H130s will replace four older EC130 T2s (C-GTZN, C-GTZO, C-GTZP and C-GTZQ) delivered in 2015 which replaced a fleet of Bell 407s. Helicopter Transportation Services (HTS) bought Niagara from Ruedi Hafen in 2012. Helicopter tours began in Niagara Falls in 1961.

Rainbow Air started doing helicopter tours of Niagara Falls with MD 500D helicopters out of a raised helipad in downtown Niagara Falls, NY in 1975. On July 3, 2025, the company unveiled its brand new Rainbow Air Tourism Center heliport and two new Airbus H130 T2 helicopters (N961RA and N962RA). The heliport is near Niagara Falls State Park and features an heated helipad for year-round operations, a spacious hangar, and a visitor-friendly terminal with flight simulators and helicopter exhibits including a Bell 204B/UH-1B cabin in US Army markings. An air tour is 8 to 10 minutes.

Calspan Aerospace acquired this Learjet 24D in 1979. It was then modified into a variable stability aircraft and after completion in 1981 entered service first at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. In October, 2017, Calspan acquired a Learjet 31A to be used as a new VSS (Variable Stability System) aircraft to replace the Learjet 24D which is now retired and stored behind the Calspan hangar at Niagara Falls International Airport (KIAG/IAG).

Mercy Health Life Flight has provided helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) to Northwestern Ohio and Southeastern Michigan since 1979. It operates three Leonardo AW109E Powers and added its first Leonardo AW119Kx, N78LF, to its fleet in March 2024. The HEMS service has a heliport and hangar in downtown Toledo the Mercy Health — St. Vincent Medical Center and helicopter bases to the east at Sandusky County Regional Airport (S24) and to the west at Fulton County Airport (KUSE) in Wauseon, Ohio. N91SV was first registered to the hospital based HEMS program in July 2005.

This Airbus EC 135 P2+ was built in 2008 and sold to PHI Health Inc. which operates the air ambulance on behalf of the ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah, Wisconsin. The helicopter is based at a hangar and heliport behind the hospital next to the Fax River which runs through the town of Neenah. The hospital has operated EC135s since the early 2000s. This photo was taken in the afternoon from a bridge over the Fox River as the helicopter was returning from a mission. Neenah is 13 miles north of Oshkosh, WI.

This DHC-2 Beaver, N1958R, msn 255 was imported from Canada in June 2025 and photographed at Griffiss Int'l Airport in Rome, NY. It was originally delivered to the US Army as 51-16795 on 30-May-1952. It was sold to the Board of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater, OK and registered N9002 in the early 1970s, and then became N46936 with Crossroads Air Enterprises Ltd., Syracuse, NY in July 1978. It was imported to Canada as C-GDEU in 1980 and based in Sudbury and Collingwood, ON. To US in 1994 and based in Oregon as N41MW and N255JF. Sold to Canada as C-FPZZ in Aug. 2010.

Ornge is the air ambulance service in the Province of Ontario. It operates a fleet of eight Pilatus Next Generation PC-12 turboprops and 12 Leonardo AW-139 helicopters. C-GYNO was photographed at Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport which is usually home for two AW139s. The other AW139 bases a located in Ottawa, Sudbury, London, Moosenee, Thunder Bay and Kenora. The Ontario Ministry of Health's air ambulance program launched in the late 1970s with a single IFR Bell 212 operating as "Bandage One" from Buttonville Airport, north of Toronto. A second 212 followed, then a BK117 and two S-76As.

The UW Med Flight helicopter air ambulance service is based at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin and was established in 1985. In 1989, the program operated the Aerospatiale 365N, N1UW. which was based at a ground level heliport near the emergency department of the hospital (which was replace by a rooftop pad). The helicopter was previously registered N365AH, and later registered N9UW, F-WQEE and 3A-MCM. Med Flight has been operated by Metro Aviation since May 2019 now operates one Airbus H145 and three Airbus H135s based at Portage, Mineral Point and Janesville.

Jetall's first Boeing 737-210C, C-GJLN is see a few minutes after its delivery flight to CYYZ. The all-cargo airline was founded by Ari Tall (who previously worked for Soundair) and was active from the late 1980s to about 1996s and operated three Cessna 402s, 15 Fairchild Metros, four Convair 580s and two 737-200Cs over its lifetime. This 737 was delivered new to Wein Air in Alaska (N4907) and later flew with Quebecair (C-GQBD), East Jet (N728JE) and Air Atlanta Icelandic (TF-ABJ) before Jetall. It later flew for mining companies Noranda and Falconbridge before Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises.

Bell transferred the Model 412 production line from Hurst, Texas to Mirabel, Quebec in 1989. Canadian 412s received a new msn series in the 46xxx range. This is 412SP msn 36005 in the preflight hangar at Mirabel with the temporary registration C-GFNL. The first six Canadian-built 412s were delivered to Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. for offshore use in the Gulf of Mexico including this aircraft which became N22347. On August 19, 2004, N22347 made an emergency water landing with in the South Pass 65 offshore block after loss of tail rotor control. Minor damage. To XA-RSL. To N22347. Cancelled.

The second prototype YF-18 has been parked for many years at the Fire & Rescue facility on the north side of Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress (KNFE) which is 11 mi/17 km SE of NAS Oceana in a rural area of Virginia. The single 8000 ft runway is used by Navy aircraft from NAS Oceana and NAS Norfolk for training. Photos from about 10 years ago still show the YF-18 wearing US Navy markings. It was previously at NAS Norfolk for fire fighting and crane practice with local aircraft carriers. It is difficult to view aircraft using from the runway which is surrounded by trees inside the base.