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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Dehavilland 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s 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-6 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
- 688
- 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 · U/A Canada PT6 SER 578HP · 550 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 22
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A74D8D (octal 51646615)
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, 1994
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 25, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00770711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department of Commerce
- 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
- 3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836 - Co-owners
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N57RF links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-6 114 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 Canada PT6 series 78 aircraft with this engine series · 550 hp
- United States Department Of Commerce 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Lakeland, FL 353 aircraft registered in this town
- Lakeland Linder International · LAL
- South Lakeland Airport · X49
- Florida 21,705 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-6 70 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-6 956 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-6 312 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Adapter, misinstalled · 2007-10-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Control, failed · 1998-11-16
- Where N57RF is now · Last seen today at 12:48 pm.
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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data