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Cessna Aircraft Company 340A · built 1981

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

This airframe was written off — TSB records the aircraft destroyed on July 21, 1985. No route data will appear.

Safety history

  • July 21, 1985Accident

    The twin engine aircraft departed Sydney-J. A. Douglas McCurdy Airport on a survey flight to Stephenville. En route, it struck the slope of Table Mountain located about 17 km northwest of Channel-Port-aux-Basques. all three occupants were killed.

    Piper PA-31-310 Navajo · 3 fatalities

Transportation Safety Board of Canada records1 on file

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (July 21, 1985).

  • July 21, 1985Accidentdestroyed

    Piper PA-31 · Port Aux Basques · 3 fatalities · A85A0020

    The operation was a planned magnetometer flight. The survey was to cover a block of airspace that was located on the south coast of Newfoundland. The block was to be flown on east/west tracks l000 meters apart. The majority of tracks were to be flown over water. Some of the most northerly tracks would be over land…

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