Dehavilland DHC-2
N117BB is a Dehavilland DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Kustatan Leasing LLC, an LLC in Nikiski, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 28, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1511
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1962
- Transponder code
- A0464F (octal 50043117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 28, 2016
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00510053
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kustatan Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 8553
Nikiski, AK 99635-8553
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N117BB, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Kustatan Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 28, 2016, 54 years after the 1962 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1511 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N117BB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK (serial 917815, cancelled May 5, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N117BB: Accident on January 1, 2002 at Sterling, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Let L-23 · operated under 091
The student pilots inadequate compensation for wind conditions which resulted in an off-field landing, and the CFI's improper decision to allow the student to fly solo. Factors related to the accident were the gusting wind conditions, and the students lack of total experience in gliders.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC02LA046 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data