Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S3
N2JM is a Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mead, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 29, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-1B-2-S3 · all DHC-1B-2-S3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 136-174
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A18E25 (octal 50307045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 29, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00202648
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckinstry James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3750 Weld County Rd 32
Mead, CO 80542
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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 N2JM, 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 Mckinstry James D, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 29, 1994, 43 years after the 1951 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 136-174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2JM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mckinstry PITTS SPECIAL S-1E (serial 7-0060JM-2, cancelled February 3, 1977). 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 N2JM: Accident on February 22, 1985 at Marana, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Jim Mckinstry ARESTIA GANADOR · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85FA150 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