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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Dehavilland DHC-6-200
N70EA is a Dehavilland DHC-6-200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 24 seats. It is registered to Eagle Air Transport, a corporation in Ottawa, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2013 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 30, 1994.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 3:03 pm.
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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
- 139
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9529A (octal 52251232)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2013
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 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 · June 30, 1994
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00954652
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eagle Air Transport
- 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
- 3215 e 1969Th Rd
Ottawa, IL 61350-9408
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 N70EA 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 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Eagle Air Transport 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ottawa, IL 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Skydive Chicago Airport · 8N2
- Illinois 8,071 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 8,209 reports since 1995
- Where N70EA is now · Last seen October 18 at 3:03 pm.
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The public federal record on N70EA, 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 Eagle Air Transport, a corporation, certificate issued October 21, 2013, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45747, cancelled May 5, 1994). 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]
1 NTSB record under N70EA: Accident on February 9, 2015 at Sebastian, 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 6 200 · operated under 091
The failure of the other airplane pilot to conduct all of the required items on the Before Starting Engines checklist, which resulted in her failure to detect an open hydraulic circuit breaker and led to insufficient hydraulic pressure to operate the airplane’s brakes, her subsequent loss of airplane control, and ground collision with an airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data