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Bombardier Inc DHC-8-315
N568AW is a Bombardier Inc DHC-8-315, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 48 seats. It is registered to US Department of State, a government body in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- DHC-8-315 · all DHC-8-315s 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 Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 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
- 568
- 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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 48
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A744B7 (octal 51642267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01061353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department of State
- 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
- 6767 N Wickham Rd Ste 201
Melbourne, FL 32940-2025
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 N568AW links to the rest of the register
- Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 58 registered
- Bombardier Inc 3,043 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- US Department Of State 21 aircraft in the fleet
- Melbourne, FL 322 aircraft registered in this town
- Melbourne Orlando International · MLB
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 351 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 14,555 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 298 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Channel, corroded · 2019-05-22
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The public federal record on N568AW, 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 US Department of State, a government body, certificate issued November 12, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 568 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N568AW 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 N568AW. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data