Dehavilland DHC-6-300
N57RF is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 22 seats. It is registered to United States Department Of Commerce, a government body in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 1994 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated March 25, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · U/A Canada PT6 SER 578HP · 550 hp
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A74D8D (octal 51646615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 1994
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · March 25, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00770711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department Of Commerce
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836 - Co-owners
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N57RF, 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 United States Department Of Commerce, a government body, certificate issued June 14, 1994, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 25, 2004, 23 years after the 1981 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 688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57RF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell UH-1H (serial 64-14145, cancelled July 9, 1984); Bell UH-1H (serial 66-15128, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N57RF. 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 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