C-GYYB (C.l.a.s.s. BUSHCADDY L164) — routes, history & safety record

We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.

Safety history

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

Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 2003 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried C-GYYB.

May 1, 1995Accident
Bearskin flight 362, a Fairchild Swearingen Metro 23, departed Red Lake, Ontario, at 1300 central daylight saving time (CDT), with two pilots and one passenger on board, en route to Sioux Lookout on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan.
Swearingen SA227 Metro III · 3 fatalities
Neither flight crew saw the other aircraft in time to avoid the collision. Contributing to the occurrence were the inherent limitations of the see-and-avoid concept which preclude the effective separation of aircraft with high closure rates, the fact that neither crew was directly alerted to the presence of the other aircraft by the Flight Service… Full accident record

Worst recorded outcome: substantial damage.

December 15, 2019Accidentsubstantial damage
Beaver Lake, BC · A19P0179
C-GYYB, a privately-operated C.L.A.S.S. Bushcaddy L164 on skis, was taking off from the owner's property at Beaver Lake, BC. During the take-off run one wing struck a tree and directional control was lost. The aircraft veered into trees resulting in substantial damage. The pilot was not injured.

Registrations are reused. 3 TSB records predate the airframe built in 2003 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried C-GYYB.

May 1, 1995Accidentdestroyed
Fairchild METRO IV · Sioux Lookout (12 N.w.) · 8 fatalities · A95H0008
A95h0008: air sandy, a piper pa-31 navajo, with one crew and four passengers onboard had departed sioux lookout enroute to red lake. Bearskin airways, a fairchild swearingen metro 23, with two crew and one passenger, was inbound to sioux lookout on a flight from red lake. The two aircraft collided at 4,500 feet asl…
October 14, 1993Incident
Fairchild METRO IV · Ottawa International · A93O0355
The cessna 421, n421kg, departed runway 25 on a sid 4 departure (climb runway heading to 5,000 feet). The pilot did not follow the sid but turned right, toward ottawa vortac, and conflicted with bls373, a swearengen sw 3 that had just departed runway 32. The loss of separation occurred 6 miles north west of ottawa…
October 20, 1979Accidentdestroyed
Cessna 152 · Rainbow Lake 1 W · 2 fatalities · A79W0102
Shortly after midnight, an instructor and a student pilot left a party to go flying. The aircraft was found 4 days later to have crashed in a shallow, descending turn with the engine developing power. Although weather conditions were marginal for VFR flight, the aircraft had flown in the local area for about 1/2 hour…