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N121KT

Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A)

Valid Alaska

N121KT is a Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Rustair INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) · all DHC-2 MK. I(L20A)s and related versions
Serial number
1407
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1958
Transponder code
A0585C (octal 50054134)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 19, 1998
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 4, 1976
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00223426

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rustair INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 190867
Anchorage, AK 99519-0867

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N121KT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rustair INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 1976, 18 years after the 1958 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1407 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N121KT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N121KT: Accident on December 17, 2012 at Skwentna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 14, 2012 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

ANC13CA018Accident on December 17, 2012 at Skwentna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) · operated under 135

The pilot's loss of control while landing in gusting wind conditions.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC13CA018 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

ANC12LA051Accident on June 14, 2012 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dehavilland DHC-2 · operated under 135

The loss of engine power after departure due to the separation of an engine cylinder.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC12LA051 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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