Dehavilland DHC-2
N4444Z is a Dehavilland DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Rustair INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 1990 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 23, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1307
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1958
- Transponder code
- A55C75 (octal 51256165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 1990
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 23, 1976
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00140440
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rustair INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 190867
Anchorage, AK 99519-0867
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 N4444Z, 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 Rustair INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 13, 1990, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 23, 1976, 18 years after the 1958 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 1307 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4444Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-8780, cancelled June 12, 1969). 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 N4444Z: Accident on August 2, 2024 at Anchorage, AK: 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 DHC2 · operated under 135
A partial loss of power during takeoff climb for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC24LA073 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