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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Dehavilland DHC-6-300
N344CS is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1971. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Transport Company LLC, an LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated July 11, 2019.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Rampart Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 3:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s 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-6 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
- 334
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W PT6A-34 · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- A3CC6D (octal 50746155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 11, 2019
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01010315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Transport Company 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
- 1777 Aviation Way
Colorado Springs, CO 80916-2707
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N344CS links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-6 114 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rampart Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 42 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Transport Company LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Colorado Springs, CO 557 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,484 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-6 70 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-6 956 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-6 312 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 465 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pushrod, abnormal · 2019-03-27
- Where N344CS is now · Last seen October 15 at 3:57 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N344CS.json.
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The public federal record on N344CS, 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 Transport Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 19, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 2019, 48 years after the 1971 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 334 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N344CS 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 N344CS: Accident on August 11, 2025 at San Celmente, CA: 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-6-300 · operated under 135
On August 11, 2025, at 1130 Pacific daylight time, a De Havilland DHC-6-300, N344CS, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at San Clemente Island, California. The 2 pilots and 16 passengers were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 Part 135 on-demand air taxi flight. According to the operator, the flight was uneventful until approximately 10 seconds prior to touchdown. About 15-20 ft above ground level and an airspeed of about 95 knots, the airplane began to yaw hard to the left and pitched nose down. The left wing struck the…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data