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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Dehavilland DHC-6-200
N690MF is a Dehavilland DHC-6-200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1968. It has 24 seats. It is registered to Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC, a corporation in Rosharon, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2001 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 7, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6-200 · all DHC-6-200s 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-6 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
- 121
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 24
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A92BCF (octal 52225717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2001
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 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 · April 7, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00585700
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1121
Rosharon, TX 77583-1121
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N690MF links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-6 114 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Rosharon, TX 42 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,960 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-6 70 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-6 956 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-6 312 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Where N690MF is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:48 pm.
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The public federal record on N690MF, 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 Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 31, 2001, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 2000, 32 years after the 1968 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 121 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N690MF 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]
2 NTSB records under N690MF: Incident on March 21, 1989 at Bismark, ND: no injuries. Incident on December 29, 1988 at St. Paul, MN: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gulfstream 690A · operated under 135
A FAILED (CRACKED) ENGINE PLENUM RESULTING IN LOSS OF ENGINE POWER.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gulfstream COMMANDER 690A · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data