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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Dehavilland 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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Misty Fjords Air and Outfitting, Inc, 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
- 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
- 274
- 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-34 · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1958
- Transponder code
- A91CF3 (octal 52216363)
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 7, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 10, 2023
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00181209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Doyon Air Transport 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
- 1716 S Tongass Hwy
Ketchikan, AK 99901-9500
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 N6868B 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
- Misty Fjords Air and Outfitting, Inc · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 42 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Doyon Air Transport LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- 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 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-3 394 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 465 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, leaking · 2005-08-05
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6868B.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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