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LIST OF ITEMS PROHIBITED IN CARRY-ON BAGGAGE ON BOARD AIRCRAFT
Below is Transport Canada's list of items not permitted in carry-on baggage on board aircraft.
For more information on carry-on
baggage items, you may consult the list of dangerous
goods and Canadian
Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) website. Screening authorities retain the right to refuse any additional items they perceive as a
possible threat to the security of air travel.
Information for passengers travelling by air to, from, or within the United States - April 14, 2005
The list includes:
- Ammunition
- Automatic weapons
- Axes and hatchets (unless part of aircraft equipment)
- Billiard cues
- Billy clubs and blackjacks
- Bows and arrows
- Box cutters
- Brass knuckles
- Carbon dioxide cartridges and other compressed gases (except those
required for medical purposes or to be used for aircraft maintenance or for
aerodrome maintenance or construction)
- Caustic materials (including acids)
- Chemicals or gases that are disabling (such as incapacitating sprays,
pepper spray, mace and tear gas)
- Corkscrews with attached knives
- Dangerous goods
within the meaning of the Transportation of Dangerous
Goods Act, 1992, and the regulations under it, unless specific approval
has been granted by a person authorized by the Minister to carry out an
inspection under section 8.7 of the Aeronautics Act (such as wet cell
batteries, dry ice, large quantities of matches and radioactive material,
except those required for medical purposes or that are part of aircraft
equipment)
- Darts
- Devices for shocking (such as stun guns and cattle prods, except
defibrillators that are required for medical purposes or that are part of
aircraft equipment)
- Explosives (such as blasting caps, detonating cord, dynamite, black and
smokeless powder, gun powder, hand grenades, slurries and all products
labeled as being explosive) and military explosives (such as C-4, DM12 and
sheet explosives)
- Fire extinguishers (except those that are part of aircraft equipment or
aerodrome safety equipment)
- Gas torches
- Golf clubs
- Guns (such as revolvers, rifles, shot guns, BB guns, pellet guns,
compressed air guns, starter pistols, flare pistols and spear guns)
- Gun lighters
- Hockey sticks
- Syringes and hypodermic needles (except for personal medical use, and
with the needle’s guard in place, and when accompanied by labelled
medication)
- Ice axes and ice picks
- Ice skates
- Insecticides (except those to be used by crew members for disinfection
purposes)
- Knives or knife-like objects of any length (such as hunting knives, scuba
knives, swords, sabres, meat cleavers, straight razors and religious knives)
- Lacrosse sticks
- Liquids marked as flammable (such as gasoline, kerosene, lighter fluid
and turpentine)
- Liquids that are unidentifiable in unmarked containers
- Martial arts devices (such as throwing stars, kubasaunt, kubatons and
numchucks)
- Oxygen tanks (except those required for medical purposes or that are part
of aircraft equipment)
- Paint
- Paint thinner
- Parts of guns
- Penetrating objects (such as scissors with pointed tips)
- Pyrotechnics (such as fireworks, road flares, flare pistol cartridges and
starter pistol cartridges)
- Razor blades (not in cartridges)
- Replica weapons
- Restraining devices (except those used by peace officers or crew members
or by escort officers escorting prisoners)
- Scuba tanks
- Ski poles
- Sling shots and catapults
- Sporting bats (such as baseball bats and cricket bats)
- Tools (such as hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, drills, saws,
crow bars and heavy tools, except those to be used for aircraft maintenance
or for aerodrome maintenance or construction)
- Toy weapons including toy transformer robots that form into toy guns
August 2005
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