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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1
N68010 is a Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Blue Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 10, 1976.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Venture Travel, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 · all BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1s 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 BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 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
- 1243
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 122 mph
- Transponder code
- A905CB (octal 52202713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 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 · June 10, 1976
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00533536
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4085 Tongass Ave
Ketchikan, AK 99901-5526
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 N68010 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 76 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Venture Travel, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Blue Aircraft LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Ketchikan, AK 118 aircraft registered in this town
- Ketchikan International · KTN
- Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base · 5KE
- Murphys Pullout Seaplane Base · 8K9
- Peninsula Point Pullout Seaplane Base · 9C0
- Alaska 9,144 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pushrod, broken · 2016-07-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Transducer, malfunctioned · 2004-09-13
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N68010.json.
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The public federal record on N68010, 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 Blue Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 27, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 10, 1976, 18 years after the 1958 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 1243 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68010 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 N68010. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data