Dehavilland DHC-2
N490K 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 Katmai Air LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated May 1, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1268
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1958
- Transponder code
- A610F9 (octal 51410371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · May 1, 2007
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00481385
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Katmai Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4125 Aircraft Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1050
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N490K, 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 Katmai Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 29, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 1, 2007, 49 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 1268 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N490K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech B90 (serial LJ-470, cancelled May 16, 1978); General Aircraft Corp. 111-C (serial 1, cancelled February 20, 1932). 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 N490K: Accident on October 5, 2009 at King Salmon, 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: Dehavilland DHC-2 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable takeoff area, and his decision to takeoff with a tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC10CA001 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