Dehavilland DHC-8-201
N428MS is a Dehavilland DHC-8-201, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1996. It has 44 seats. It is registered to Bank Of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 14, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-8-201 · all DHC-8-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW123C · 1950 hp
- Seats
- 44
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A51A7B (octal 51215173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 14, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00575881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bank Of Utah Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 50 S 200 E Ste 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1617
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 N428MS, 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 Bank Of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 12, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 14, 2021, 25 years after the 1996 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 428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N428MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer 269C (serial S1424, cancelled May 21, 2015). 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 N428MS: Accident on July 30, 2007 at Three Forks, MT: 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: Hughes 269C · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft during autorotation. The flight instructor's inadequate supervision was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA220 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