Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3
N731E is a Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1968. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Alaskan Air Charter LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 3, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Bros. & Harland
- Model
- SC7 SERIES 3 · all SC7 SERIES 3s and related versions
- Serial number
- SH-1853
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 171 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CF26 (octal 52347446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 3, 1978
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00361687
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaskan Air Charter LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3787 Richard Evelyn Byrd St # A
Anchorage, AK 99517-2348
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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 N731E, 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 Alaskan Air Charter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 2, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 1978, 10 years after the 1968 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 SH-1853 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N731E 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 N731E: Accident on June 8, 2022 at Chisana, AK: 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: Short Bros. & Harland SC7 · operated under 135
The pilot’s selection of an unsuitable landing site, which resulted in the nosewheel collapsing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC22LA042 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