Dehavilland DHC-6-300
N143Z is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1974. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fire & Aviation, a government body in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 1992 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 14, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 437
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1974
- Transponder code
- A0B014 (octal 50130024)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 1992
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 14, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00013850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fire & Aviation
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3833 S Development Ave
Boise, ID 83705-5354
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N143Z, 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 Usda Forest Service Fire & Aviation, a government body, certificate issued September 14, 1992, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 14, 1982, 8 years after the 1974 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 437 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N143Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas VC-47D (serial 4349281, cancelled January 8, 1992); Beech T-34B (serial BG-162, cancelled May 18, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N143Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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