Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER
N70464 is a Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1977. It has 16 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 1979 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated July 16, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6 TWIN OTTER · all DHC-6 TWIN OTTERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 555
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A966B1 (octal 52263261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 1979
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · July 16, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00080797
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 34H Og/Ogq
9206 Airfield Dr Ste 1
Usaf Academy, CO 80840-2060
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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 N70464, 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 United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued October 30, 1979, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 2009, 32 years after the 1977 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 555 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70464 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N70464. 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 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