Dehavilland DHC-2
N470DB is a Dehavilland DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to N470Db LLC, an LLC in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 7, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 917
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5C167 (octal 51340547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 7, 1980
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00953416
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N470Db LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 35905 Ryan Ln
Soldotna, AK 99669-8798
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N470DB, 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 N470Db LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 917 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N470DB 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]
1 NTSB record under N470DB: Accident on June 22, 1997 at Juneau, 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 DHC-2 MK-I · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudged touchdown which resulted in dragging the right wingtip and rupturing the fuel tank. A factor associated with the accident is the rough water conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97LA105 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