Dehavilland DHC-6-300
N178GC is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1980. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Rigidworks LLC, an LLC in Anaconda, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 697
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P & W PT6A-27 · 680 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A1377E (octal 50233576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 2, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00025248
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rigidworks LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 758
Anaconda, MT 59711-0758
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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 N178GC, 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 Rigidworks LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 16, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 2015, 35 years after the 1980 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 697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178GC 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]
1 NTSB record under N178GC: Incident on May 21, 2011 at Peach Springs, AZ: no injuries. 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: Dehavilland DHC-6-300 · operated under 135
A quality control failure in the Sungear, Inc. manufacturing and quality control process allowed sungears with surface finishes of the root fillet radius of the spline that did not conform to the drawing specifications to be released. The surface finish defect caused fatigue cracks to initiate early in the part life.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG11IA032 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