Dehavilland DHC-3
N43SP is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1956. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 15, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 140
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Honeywell TPE331-12JR · 1000 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1956
- Transponder code
- A52263 (octal 51221143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 15, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01091237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Samaritans Purse
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607-3000
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 N43SP, 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 Samaritans Purse, a corporation, certificate issued March 15, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 2012, 56 years after the 1956 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 140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-6-300 (serial 669, cancelled August 23, 1984). 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 N43SP: Accident on July 21, 1984 at Tau: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX84FA415 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