Dehavilland DHC-3
N6868B is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1958. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Doyon Air Transport LLC, an LLC in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 10, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 274
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P & W PT6A-34 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1958
- Transponder code
- A91CF3 (octal 52216363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 10, 2023
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00181209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Doyon Air Transport LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1716 S Tongass Hwy
Ketchikan, AK 99901-9500
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N6868B, 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 Doyon Air Transport LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 7, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 2023, 65 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 274 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6868B 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 N6868B: Accident on July 28, 2005 at Ketchikan, AK: serious injuries, minor 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: De Havilland DHC-3 · operated under 135
An electrical arc on the exterior of a fuel pressure line that initiated a fuel leak and fire during cruise flight, which resulted in serious injuries to the pilot as he performed an emergency landing on the water. A factor contributing to the accident was an inadequate annual inspection of the airplane by company maintenance personnel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC05LA110 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data