Dehavilland 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 334
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P & W PT6A-34 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- A3CC6D (octal 50746155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Commuter · July 11, 2019
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01010315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Transport Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data