Dehavilland BEAVER L-20A
N4957 is a Dehavilland BEAVER L-20A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Talon Air Service INC, a corporation in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated April 9, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- BEAVER L-20A
- Serial number
- 490
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 122 mph
- Transponder code
- A625F8 (octal 51422770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · April 9, 2010
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00400675
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talon Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1109
Soldotna, AK 99669-1109
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4957, 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 Talon Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 18, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 9, 2010, 57 years after the 1953 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 490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4957 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 N4957: Accident on June 11, 2024 at Port Alsworth, AK: serious 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 BEAVER L-20A (DHC-2) · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC24LA049 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data