C-GWJG
Boeing 737-7CT · built 2007
Register facts: Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (open data, file dated October 27, 2026).
Usually based at YYC
Most frequent routes
- YYZ → YVR9%
- YVR → YYZ6%
- YXE → YYC2%
- YYC → YXE2%
- YHM → YYC2%
- YYC → YHM2%
- YYZ → YYC2%
- YYC → LAX2%
- YYC → YOW2%
- YEG → YYC2%
Last seen
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 2007 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried C-GWJG.
- July 1, 1982Accident
Crashed in unknown circumstances while engaged in a fire fighting mission. The pilot, sole on board, was killed.
Transportation Safety Board of Canada records11 on file
Worst recorded outcome: minor damage.
- July 31, 2026Incident
C-GWJG, a WestJet Boeing 737-700 was operating as flight WJA240 from Calgary International Airport (CYYC), AB, to Winnipeg/James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (CYWG), MB. Shortly after take-off from CYYC, after retracting the landing gear, the flight crew observed that the nose gear did not retract. The…
- November 28, 2025Incidentminor damage
C-GWJG, a Boeing 737-700 operated by WestJet, experienced increased vibration during the takeoff roll from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport (CYYZ), ON. After landing gear retraction, a Leading Edge Flap Transit light illuminated. The flight crew notified ATC of a possible blown tire and requested…
- February 28, 2024Incident
A WestJet Airlines Boeing 737-700 aircraft (registration C-GWJG) departed Regina International Airport (CYQR), SK, on an IFR flight to Calgary International Airport (CYYC), AB. While enroute, smoke began to emit from the flight number display on the first officer's control column. The flight crew disconnected the…
- May 28, 2023Incident
C-GWJG, a Boeing 737-7CT operated by WestJet Airlines Inc, was conducting flight WJA303 from Regina International Airport (CYQR), SK to Vancouver International Airport (CYVR), BC with 5 crew members and 73 passengers on board. While level at FL400 the flight crew observed an illuminated #1 generator annunciator light…
- May 5, 2022Incident
C-GWJG, a Boeing 737-7CT operated by WestJet, was conducting flight WJA2767 between Punta Cana International Airport (MDPC), Dominican Republic, and Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport (CYYZ), Ontario, with 5 crew and 132 passengers on board. During approach to CYYZ, the flight crew received an…
- February 5, 2017Incident
C-GWJG, a WestJet Boeing 737, was on a flight from Winnipeg (CYWG) to Orlando (KMCO). During descent into KMCO a flight attendant reported a burning odour in the cabin. The flight crew declared an emergency with ATC and landed at KMCO without incident. A maintenance inspection traced the source of the odour to the aft…
- September 3, 2016Incident
C-GWJG, a Boeing 737-700 aircraft operated by WestJet, was conducting flight WJA610 from Calgary Intl, AB (CYYC) to Ottawa/MacDonald-Cartier Intl, ON (CYOW). During cruise, the flight crew noticed smoke in the cockpit and donned smoke masks. The emergency checklist was completed and an emergency was declared. The…
- November 22, 2015Incident
Le Boeing 737-700 exploité par WestJet sous l’indicatif WJA2819 effectuait un vol selon les règles de vol aux instruments depuis l’aéroport international de Cancún (MMUN) au Mexique à destination de l’aéroport de Montréal Pierre Elliott Trudeau, QC (CYUL), avec 118 passagers et 5 membres d’équipage. Au début de la…
- October 1, 2012Incident
A12O0165: WestJet flight 2600, a Boeing 737-700 aircraft, registration C-GWJG, departed Toronto LBPIA and the flight crew were unable to retract the landing gear. After completing the appropriate checklist the crew was still unable to retract the landing gear. The crew advised ATC of the situation and received vectors…
- February 4, 2010Incident
A10F0020: The Westjet Boeing 737-700 aircraft, C-GWJG, operating as WJA1910, was en route from Victoria to Las Vegas, cruising at FL370, 24 nm south-south-west of The Dales, Oregon, when the crew received clearance to climb to FL390. After leaving FL370 the crew received a TCAS TA for traffic at FL380, followed by a…
…and 1 more on file.
Earlier aircraft with this registration
Registrations are reused. 19 TSB records predate the airframe built in 2007 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried C-GWJG.
- May 3, 2005Incident
A05W0083: A WestJet Boeing 737-200 (C-GWJG), operating as WJA 107, was climbing through FL210 when the crew noticed that the cabin rate of climb exceeded 3000 fpm up. An emergency descent was initiated and the emergency descent checklist completed. The cabin pressure stabilized at 17 000 feet during the descent and…
- February 16, 2005Incident
A05W0034: The Westjet Boeing 737-200, C-GWJG, was operating as flight WJA046 from Edmonton to Calgary, AB. During the initial climb from runway 20 in Edmonton, the departure controller issued a left turn to WJA046 and to maintain 7000 feet. An Alta Flights (Charters) Inc, Cessna 172, C-FAFW, was joining a downwind…
- January 21, 2005Incident
A05W0013: The Westjet Airlines Boeing 737-200, C-GWJG, was operating as flight WJA39 from Calgary, AB to Edmonton, AB. When WJA39 was cleared the STAR for Edmonton, they were given a restriction of 17 000 feet as there was an Air Canada Jazz Dash 8-100, flight JZA8138, below them at 16 000 feet. A loss of separation…
- November 8, 2004Incident
A04W0242: The West Jet Boeing 737-275 aircraft, registration C-GWJG, operating as WJA 694, was en route from Vancouver, BC to Winnipeg, MB when a flight attendant developed serious abdominal pains. Medical personnel on board attended to the flight attendant, the flight diverted to Calgary, AB and was met by EMS.
- September 1, 2004Incident
A04C0166: The Boeing 737-200, C-GWJG was ready to depart Winnipeg on a scheduled flight to Saskatoon. As the engine power was advanced to take-off power, the left engine (Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9) experienced engine compressor stalls. The power for both engines was reduced and the aircraft returned to the ramp…
…and 14 more on file.
Source: TSB Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) (open data).