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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Dehavilland Acft Of Canada Ltd DHC-2 MK 1
N255JB is a Dehavilland Acft Of Canada Ltd DHC-2 MK 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Ursus Air LLC, an LLC in Yakutat, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 18, 2025.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Ursus Air LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland Acft Of Canada Ltd
- Model
- DHC-2 MK 1 · all DHC-2 MK 1s 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 Acft Of Canada Ltd DHC-2 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
- 942
- 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 R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1956
- Transponder code
- A26ADB (octal 50465333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 3, 2025
- 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 · July 18, 2025
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01511819
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ursus Air 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
- 1020 Airport Access Rd
Yakutat, AK 99689
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N255JB links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland Acft Of Canada Ltd DHC-2 6 registered
- Dehavilland Acft Of Canada Ltd 9 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ursus Air LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 77 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Type certificate A806 · held by Viking Air LTD
- Ursus Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Yakutat, AK 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Alsek River Airport · A57
- Dry Bay Airport · 3AK
- East Alsek River Airport · AK76
- Harlequin Lake Airport · A67
- 4 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 536 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N255JB.json.
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The public federal record on N255JB, 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 Ursus Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 3, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 2025, 69 years after the 1956 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 942 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N255JB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR20 (serial 1059, cancelled October 23, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N255JB: Accident on February 24, 2017 at Daytona Beach, FL: serious 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: Cirrus SR20 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent encounter with instrument meteorological conditions (fog) during initial climb, which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data