C-FCWM
CUB TROTTER 18-WIDE
Register facts: Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (open data, file dated November 10, 2026).
This airframe was written off — TSB records the aircraft destroyed on September 30, 1985. No route data will appear.
Safety history
- September 30, 1985AccidentHull loss
On final approach to Schefferville Airport, the pilot encountered poor weather conditions with heavy snow falls when the aircraft crashed few km short of runway 36. The aircraft was destroyed and all eight occupants were killed, among them six US citizens from Chicago. Pilot incapacitation suspected.
Transportation Safety Board of Canada records2 on file
Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (September 30, 1985).
- August 18, 2015Accidentsubstantial damage
The amateur-built Safari helicopter, C-FCWM, landed on a gravel bar about 15 nm west of Nanaimo Airport, BC (CYCD). Shortly after landing the pilot engaged the cyclic control lock and exited the helicopter to take a photograph with the engine running and rotors turning. After reentering the helicopter, it was lifted…
- September 30, 1985Accidentdestroyed
A85H0005: The Beech D18S was transporting caribou hunters and their equipment between the company's Wedge Hills hunting lodge and the Schefferville Airport. The accident flight was uneventful until the pilot began his visual approach to runway 36 at Schefferville. Visibility at the airport was reduced in a snow…
Source: TSB Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) (open data).