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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2
N697 is a Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Northwest Passage LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated June 1, 1993.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Tikchik Narrows Lodge 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-Kenmore
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s 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-Kenmore 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
- 697
- 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
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A944B6 (octal 52242266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · June 1, 1993
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00630447
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Passage 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
- 1105 F St
Anchorage, AK 99501-4344
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N697 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2 7 registered
- Dehavilland-Kenmore 7 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Tikchik Narrows Lodge INC. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Northwest Passage LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,529 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N697.json.
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The public federal record on N697, 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 Northwest Passage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 12, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N697 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Standard J-1 (serial 796 SUB, cancelled February 28, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N697. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data