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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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bristow Special Mission Inc., 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 Thursday at 10:47 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-8-201 · all DHC-8-201s 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-8 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
- 428
- 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 Canada PW123C · 1950 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 44
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A51A7B (octal 51215173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2024
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 14, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00575881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bank of Utah Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N428MS links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-8 28 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bristow Special Mission Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW123C 3 aircraft with this engine series · 1950 hp
- Bank Of Utah Trustee 1,811 aircraft in the fleet
- Salt Lake City, UT 2,925 aircraft registered in this town
- Salt Lake City International · SLC
- South Valley Regional · SVR
- Utah 8,356 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-8 160 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-8 19,964 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-8 137 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW123C 8 airworthiness directives
- Where N428MS is now · Last seen Thursday at 10:47 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N428MS.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data