Dehavilland 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland Acft Of Canada Ltd
- Model
- DHC-2 MK 1 · all DHC-2 MK 1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 942
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1956
- Transponder code
- A26ADB (octal 50465333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 18, 2025
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01511819
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ursus Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA113 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