Dehavilland DHC-3
N727FH is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1958. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Emerald Air Service INC, a corporation in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s 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-3 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
- 307
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P & W PT6A-34 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1958
- Transponder code
- A9BE12 (octal 52337022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 6, 2026
- 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 · March 21, 2013
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00192781
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Emerald Air Service INC
- 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
- 1344 Lakeshore Dr
Homer, AK 99603-7933
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 N727FH links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-3 66 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-34 42 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Emerald Air Service INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Homer, AK 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Homer Airport · HOM
- Homer-Beluga Lake Seaplane Base · 5BL
- Alaska 9,145 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-3 394 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 465 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N727FH.json · about the eFlight graph.
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The public federal record on N727FH, 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 Emerald Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 26, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 21, 2013, 55 years after the 1958 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 307 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N727FH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-82 (serial 20489, cancelled November 29, 1995). 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 N727FH. 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 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 7, 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 7, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data