Dehavilland DHC-3
N708KA is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1954. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Single Otter Leasing Two LLC, an LLC in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 30, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 59
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A97328 (octal 52271450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 30, 2015
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00673342
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Single Otter Leasing Two LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 320 Dock St
Ketchikan, AK 99901-6437
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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 N708KA, 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 Single Otter Leasing Two LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 1, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 30, 2015, 61 years after the 1954 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 59 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N708KA 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 N708KA: Accident on April 11, 2026 at Dry Tortugas, FL: no injuries, substantial 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: Dehavilland DHC-3 · operated under 135
On April 11, 2026, about 0845 eastern daylight time, an amphibious DeHavilland DHC-3, N708KA, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Dry Tortugas, Florida. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 repositioning flight. The pilot reported that he taxied the airplane away from the beach and completed the pre-takeoff checklist for water operations. After aligning the airplane into the wind, he initiated the water run for takeoff. At 70 mph, he applied aft yoke pressure, but the airplane did not liftoff. He t…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data