Dehavilland DHC-3
N254AW is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Destination Alaska Air Service LLC, an LLC in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 254
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A2666F (octal 50463157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 3, 1986
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00163526
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Destination Alaska Air Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 778
Homer, AK 99603-0778
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 N254AW, 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 Destination Alaska Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 27, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 1986, 29 years after the 1957 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 254 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N254AW 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 N254AW: Accident on September 7, 2001 at Cordova, AK: 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-3 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power during cruise due to the fracture of an engine cylinder exhaust valve.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC01LA138 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
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