Dehavilland DHC-3
N17689 is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Rjf Holdings LLC, an LLC in Rcho Sta Marg, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 1, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 431
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A13309 (octal 50231411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 1, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00560054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rjf Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 31441 Santa Margarita Pkwy
Ste A256
Rcho Sta Marg, CA 92688-1836
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.
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The public federal record on N17689, 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 Rjf Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 24, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 1998, 37 years after the 1961 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 431 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17689 according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N17689: Accident on June 30, 1990 at Beaver Village, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 2, 1989 at Sheenjek River, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-3 · operated under 135
MECHANICAL FAILURE OF AN EXHAUST ROCKER ARM.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC90LA103 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-3 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO GO AROUND WHEN HE WAS UNABLE TO ATTAIN THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT AND HIS EXCESSIVE APPLICATION OF BRAKES DURING THE LANDING. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE: THE DOWNDRAFT, EXCESSIVE REMEDIAL ACTION, AND SOFT TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89LA156 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data