Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A
N343WB is a Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Sportsmans Leasing LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- BEAVER U-6A · all BEAVER U-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1644
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 122 mph
- Transponder code
- A3CA69 (octal 50745151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 6, 1992
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00823414
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sportsmans Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4504 Lakeshore Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1065
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N343WB, 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 Sportsmans Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 25, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 1992, 37 years after the 1955 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 1644 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N343WB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210G (serial T2100292, cancelled December 22, 1969). 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 N343WB: Accident on June 7, 2003 at Anchorage, AK: no 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-2 · operated under 091
The pilot's incorrect positioning of the fuel tank selector to a nearly empty tank, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, and subsequent emergency landing at an off-airport site.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC03LA055 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