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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A)
N4957W is a Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Ak Air Leasing LLC, an LLC in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 1993.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of K Bay Air LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 12:10 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) · all DHC-2 MK. I(L20A)s 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-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
- 1385
- 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 SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1959
- Transponder code
- A6260D (octal 51423015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 18, 1993
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00197768
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ak Air Leasing 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
- 2282 Kachemak Dr
Homer, AK 99603-8019
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
Connections how N4957W links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-2 255 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- K Bay Air LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Ak Air Leasing LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Homer, AK 200 aircraft registered in this town
- Homer Airport · HOM
- Homer-Beluga Lake Seaplane Base · 5BL
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-2 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-2 643 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-2 160 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
- Where N4957W is now · Last seen October 12 at 12:10 pm.
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The public federal record on N4957W, 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 Ak Air Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 15, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 1993, 34 years after the 1959 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 1385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4957W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Rockwell International 114 (serial 14295, cancelled July 28, 1980); Douglas C-47 (serial 16534, cancelled date not given). 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 N4957W. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data