Marsh Aviation S-2F3AT
N449DF is a Marsh Aviation S-2F3AT, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2004. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated June 28, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Marsh Aviation
- Model
- S-2F3AT · all S-2F3ATs and related versions
- Serial number
- 152838
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-14GR · 1650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A56C5D (octal 51266135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Forest · June 28, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00726071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5500 Price Avenue
Mcclellan, CA 95652-4001 - Co-owners
- California Dept Of Forestry And Fire Protection
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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 N449DF, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued June 19, 2002, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 28, 2007, 3 years after the 2004 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 152838 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N449DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman S2F-1 (serial 259, cancelled date not given). 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 N449DF: Accident on October 7, 2014 at El Portal, CA: fatal, destroyed (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: Marsh Aviation S 2F3AT · operated under PUBU
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees while maneuvering at a low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR15GA005 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