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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2
N493K is a Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Katmai Air LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated November 30, 2006.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Katmai Air, LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- BEAVER DHC-2 · all BEAVER DHC-2s 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 BEAVER DHC-2 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
- 56-0408
- 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 · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 122 mph
- Transponder code
- A61C1E (octal 51416036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 30, 2006
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00882101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Katmai Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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 1
Connections how N493K links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 38 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Katmai Air, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 77 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Katmai Air LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,530 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 536 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N493K.json.
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The public federal record on N493K, 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 February 7, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56-0408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N493K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Froelich Robert E LANCAIR IV (serial LIV065, cancelled April 22, 2003). 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 N493K: Accident on June 8, 2000 at Bountiful, UT: minor 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: Froelich LANCAIR IV · operated under 091
The loss of power for undetermined reasons and the pilot's unsuccessful remedial action (dive to avoid the power line). Contributing factors were the power line, the tires and the fence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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