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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dehavilland DHC-2 MK 1
N68080 is a Dehavilland DHC-2 MK 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Midnight Sun Leasing LLC, an LLC in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Branch River Air 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 October 8 at 9:49 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 MK 1 · all 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 DHC-2 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
- 694
- 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-AN-3 · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A906C0 (octal 52203300)
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 13, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2007
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00093576
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midnight Sun Leasing 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
- 57350 Glacier View Rd N
Homer, AK 99603-9591
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 N68080 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-2 255 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Branch River Air Service, Inc · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-3 4 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Midnight Sun Leasing LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Homer, AK 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Homer Airport · HOM
- Homer-Beluga Lake Seaplane Base · 5BL
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-2 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-2 643 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-2 159 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-3 1 reports since 1995
- Where N68080 is now · Last seen October 8 at 9:49 am.
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The public federal record on N68080, 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 Midnight Sun Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 21, 2007, 53 years after the 1954 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 694 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68080 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 N68080: Accident on July 19, 2021 at King Salmon, AK: 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: Dehavilland DHC-2 MK 1 · operated under 135
The pilot’s exceedance of the floatplane’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and subsequent loss of control.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data