Dehavilland DHC-3
N636KT is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Rustair INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 2015.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Rusts Flying Service INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 12:14 pm.
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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
- 451
- 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 · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A854F9 (octal 52052371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 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 · September 18, 2015
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01189155
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rustair 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 190867
Anchorage, AK 99519-0867
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 N636KT 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
- Rusts Flying Service INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Rustair INC 21 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,528 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-3 394 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,209 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bolt, sheared · 2026-06-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Tail Wheel, detached · 2021-06-15
- Where N636KT is now · Last seen Monday at 12:14 pm.
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The public federal record on N636KT, 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 Rustair INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 451 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N636KT 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 N636KT. 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 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
