Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER
N716NC is a Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1968. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Freefall Express INC, a corporation in Gardiner, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 1990 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 20, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-6 TWIN OTTER · all DHC-6 TWIN OTTERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 110
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · U/A Canada PT6 SER 578HP · 550 hp
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A99386 (octal 52311606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 1990
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 20, 1968
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00774580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freefall Express INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 269
Gardiner, NY 12525-0269
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.
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The public federal record on N716NC, 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 Freefall Express INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 22, 1990, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 20, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N716NC 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 N716NC: Accident on April 27, 1996 at Raeford, NC: fatal (1 fatal). 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: De Havilland DHC-6 · operated under 091
failure of the passenger to follow the instructions of ground personnel as she exited the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA96LA135 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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