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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dehavilland DHC-1 CHIPMUNK
N48262 is a Dehavilland DHC-1 CHIPMUNK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dubois, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 8, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-1 CHIPMUNK · all DHC-1 CHIPMUNKs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dehavilland DHC-1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- DH8F-499
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Fairchild 6-440-C5 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A5F34C (octal 51371514)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 8, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00120255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavanagh Patrick D
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1468
Dubois, WY 82513-1468 - Co-owners
- Cavanagh Michael B / Cavanagh Misty R
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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
Connections how N48262 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-1 105 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Fairchild (Ranger) 6-440-C5 11 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Dubois, WY 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Dubois Municipal · DUB
- Wyoming 3,228 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-1 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-1 15 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-1 65 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N48262, 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 Cavanagh Patrick D, a co-owned, certificate issued August 5, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DH8F-499 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48262 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft DCO-65 (serial L4829, cancelled November 21, 1955). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48262. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data