Dehavilland DHC-6-300
N189GC is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Cortez Fisher LLC, an LLC in Kirkland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 15, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 772
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-27 · 680 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A162B4 (octal 50261264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 15, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00685031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cortez Fisher LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12515 Willows Rd NE Ste 200
Kirkland, WA 98034-8795
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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 N189GC, 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 Cortez Fisher LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 2015, 34 years after the 1981 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 772 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N189GC 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 N189GC: Accident on August 9, 2025 at Whitmore, AZ: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-6-300 · operated under 135
On August 9, 2025, about 1240 Pacific daylight time, a De Havilland DHC-6-300, N189GC, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Whitmore, Arizona. Six passengers sustained minor injuries, and the captain, first officer and remaining eight passengers were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 on-demand air taxi flight. The flight departed from Boulder City Municipal Airport (BVU), Boulder City, Nevada, to transport the passengers to Grand Canyon Bar Ten Airstrip (1Z1), Whitmore, Arizona, where they were scheduled to …
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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