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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Dehavilland 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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Venture Travel, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s 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-3 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
- 409
- 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 PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A67349 (octal 51471511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 26, 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 · April 24, 2024
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00241473
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunset Holdings 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
- 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
Connections how N51441 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-3 67 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Venture Travel, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Sunset Holdings LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ketchikan, AK 118 aircraft registered in this town
- Ketchikan International · KTN
- Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base · 5KE
- Murphys Pullout Seaplane Base · 8K9
- Peninsula Point Pullout Seaplane Base · 9C0
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-3 394 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,209 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N51441.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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