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N3456L

Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A

N3456L is a Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Self Defense Of New England LLC DBA, an LLC in Bedford, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated May 22, 1990. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
BEAVER U-6A · all BEAVER U-6As and related versions
Serial number
52-6110
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
8
Year built
1952
Cruising speed
122 mph
Transponder code
A3D316 (octal 50751426)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 27, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Restricted · Other · May 22, 1990
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00481423

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Self Defense Of New England LLC DBA
Type
LLC
Address
292 Back River Rd
Bedford, NH 03110-6622
Co-owners
Epic Seaplane Adventures

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-29Loan or lien (security agreement)

Earlier use of this number 1

1989-07-21Gates Lear Jet 36A · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 3 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N3456L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Self Defense Of New England LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued April 27, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1990, 38 years after the 1952 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52-6110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3456L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gates Lear Jet 36A (serial 050, cancelled July 21, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3456L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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