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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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Northwind Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s 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-3 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
- 254
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A2666F (octal 50463157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2023
- 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 · November 3, 1986
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00163526
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Destination Alaska Air Service 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 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.
Connections how N254AW links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-3 67 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Northwind Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Destination Alaska Air Service LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Homer, AK 200 aircraft registered in this town
- Homer Airport · HOM
- Homer-Beluga Lake Seaplane Base · 5BL
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-3 394 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data