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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Dehavilland 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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Talkeetna Air Taxi INC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 30 at 11:36 am.
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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
- 46
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A73B27 (octal 51635447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- 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 · June 14, 2006
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00251369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talkeetna Air Taxi INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N565TA 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
- Talkeetna Air Taxi INC · charter operator
- Talkeetna Air Taxi INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Talkeetna, AK 94 aircraft registered in this town
- Talkeetna Airport · TKA
- Christiansen Lake Seaplane Base · AK8
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-3 394 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Ski, damaged · 2008-04-28
- Where N565TA is now · Last seen October 30 at 11:36 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N565TA.json.
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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.
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