Grumman G-44
N65914 is a Grumman G-44, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bellingham, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 23, 1957.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-44 · all G-44s 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 Grumman G-44 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
- 1385
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Fairchild 6-440 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 131 mph
- Transponder code
- A8B0C1 (octal 52130301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 10, 2025
- 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 · June 23, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00522786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Older Dan L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2820 Older Ln
Bellingham, WA 98229-2720
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 N65914 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman G-44 82 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Fairchild (Ranger) 6-440 series 292 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Bellingham, WA 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Bellingham International · BLI
- Floathaven Seaplane Base · 0W7
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Grumman G-44 1 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild (Ranger) 6-440 series 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N65914, 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 Older Dan L, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 23, 1957, 13 years after the 1944 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 1385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N65914 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 N65914: Accident on April 2, 2004 at Belliigham, WA: 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: Grumman G-44 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to select the proper touchdown point while conducting a forced landing. Factors included the #1 engine malfunction, the right propeller oil control valve leak, and the shallow subsurface terrain condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data