C-GKQJ

Embraer S.a. ERJ 190-400 · built 2022

Register facts: Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (open data, file dated October 27, 2026).

Usually based at YYZ

Most frequent routes

Last seen

YYT → YYZ

Safety history

No recorded accidents or incidents for this aircraft in FlightFinder’s database.

Earlier aircraft with this registration

Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 2022 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried C-GKQJ.

  • July 17, 1985Accident

    On approach to McLeese Lake, the twin engine airplane struck trees and crashed in a wooded area, bursting into flames. The pilot, sole on board, was killed.

    Piper PA-31-310 Navajo · 1 fatalities

Transportation Safety Board of Canada records2 on file

Worst recorded outcome: no damage.

  • January 5, 2025Incident

    Embraer ERJ 190-400 (E195-E2) · Montreal · A25Q0002

    C-GOFW, un Airbus A330-343 exploité par Air Canada sous l'indicatif ACA2358 et un Embraer ERJ 190-400 exploité par Porter Airlines sous l'indicatif POE570 effectuaient leur vol selon les règles de vol aux instruments, tous les deux à destination de l'aéroport Montréal/Pierre Elliot Trudeau, QC (CYUL). Les 2 aéronefs…

  • July 15, 2023Incident

    Embraer ERJ 190-400 (E195-E2) · Toronto · A23O0083

    C-GKQJ, an ERJ 190-400 operating as Porter Airlines flight POE119 was on a flight from Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport (CYYZ), ON to Montreal Pierre-Eliot Trudeau Airport (CYUL), QC, when the flight crew declared an emergency due to smoke in the forward cabin. The flight crew elected to return to…

Earlier aircraft with this registration

Registrations are reused. 1 TSB record predates the airframe built in 2022 and belongs to earlier aircraft that carried C-GKQJ.

  • July 17, 1985Accidentdestroyed

    Piper PA-31 · Mcleese Lake 8E · 1 fatalities · A85P0027

    A85P0027: The aircraft crashed ten minutes after taking off from Williams Lake Airport. On impact, the aircraft was in a slightly nose-down, 58-degree left bank attitude. The pilot's body was not found. An analysis of the flight path and wreckage revealed that the autopilot was engaged, the pilot's seat-belt was…

Source: TSB Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) (open data).