Dehavilland DHC-3
N51441 is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Sunset Holdings LLC, an LLC in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 24, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 409
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A67349 (octal 51471511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 24, 2024
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00241473
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunset Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4085 Tongass Ave
Ketchikan, AK 99901-5582
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 N51441, 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 Sunset Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 29, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 2024, 64 years after the 1960 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 409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51441 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Maule M-4-210C (serial 1103C, cancelled May 8, 2015); Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 75-4746, cancelled November 18, 1948). 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 N51441: Accident on October 1, 1990 at 60 E Of Bethel, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Maule M-4-210C · operated under 091
CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT BY THE PILOT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC), AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE ABOVE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARKNESS, ADVERSE TERRAIN AND WEATHER CONDITIONS, THE PILOT'S LACK OF INSTRUMENT EXPERIENCE, AND THE PILOT BECOMING LOST OR DISORIENTED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC90LA189 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