Dehavilland DHC-6-300
N46RF is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1985. It has 22 seats. It is registered to United States Department Of Commerce, a government body in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 6, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 824
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · U/A Canada PT6A SERIES · 715 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A598BF (octal 51314277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · April 6, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00913786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department Of Commerce
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836 - Co-owners
- Noaa Aircraft Operations Center
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N46RF, 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 United States Department Of Commerce, a government body, certificate issued November 10, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 6, 2004, 19 years after the 1985 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 824 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N46RF according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N46RF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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