Dehavilland 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- BEAVER DHC-2 · all BEAVER DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 56-0408
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · November 30, 2006
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00882101
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN00LA105 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