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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Dehavilland DHC-7-103
N53993 is a Dehavilland DHC-7-103, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1985. It has 55 seats. It is registered to United States Government, a government body in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 14, 1994). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 18, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-7-103 · all DHC-7-103s 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-7 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
- 104
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A6D58B (octal 51552613)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 1994
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 18, 1994
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Government
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Hqusainscom Attn Acofs G-4 Ialo-T
8825 Beulah St
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5246 - Co-owners
- Dept of the Army
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.
Connections how N53993 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-7 7 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- United States Government 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Belvoir, VA 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-7 76 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-7 324 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-7 111 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,209 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, cracked · 2019-04-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, cracked · 2019-04-02
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N53993.json.
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The public federal record on N53993, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 18, 1994, 9 years after the 1985 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 104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53993 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53993. 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