Dehavilland DHC-3
N565TA is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1954. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Talkeetna Air Taxi INC, a corporation in Talkeetna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 46
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A73B27 (octal 51635447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00251369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talkeetna Air Taxi INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 73
Talkeetna, AK 99676-0073
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.
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The public federal record on N565TA, 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 Talkeetna Air Taxi INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 14, 2006, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 14, 2006, 52 years after the 1954 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 46 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N565TA 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 N565TA: Accident on April 28, 2008 at Talkeetna, AK: no 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: De Havilland DHC-3 · operated under 135
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing site, which resulted in an overload failure of the tail ski assembly during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC08CA065 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