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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dehavilland 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dehavilland DHC-6 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 697
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W PT6A-27 · 680 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A1377E (octal 50233576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 2, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00025248
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rigidworks LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 758
Anaconda, MT 59711-0758
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.
Connections how N178GC links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-6 114 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-27 28 aircraft with this engine series · 680 hp
- Rigidworks LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Anaconda, MT 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Bowman Field · 3U3
- Montana 6,037 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-6 70 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-6 956 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-6 312 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-27 642 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Windshield Wiper, failed · 2012-10-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Reduction Gb, unserviceable · 2010-05-26
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data