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N74GC, a Dehavilland DHC-6-300
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N74GC

Dehavilland DHC-6-300

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N74GC is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1977. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Diamond Bar LLC, an LLC in Kirkland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2005 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 26, 2005.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Grand Canyon Airlines INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
DHC-6-300 · all DHC-6-300s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
559
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
22
Year built
1977
Transponder code
A9F0CA (octal 52370312)

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 24, 2005
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 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 · May 26, 2005
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00352357

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Diamond Bar LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
12515 Willows Rd NE Ste 200
Kirkland, WA 98034-8795
Charter N74GC with Grand Canyon Airlines INC:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N74GC links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Kirkland, WA 150 aircraft registered in this town
  • Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N74GC.json.

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The public federal record on N74GC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Diamond Bar LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2005, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 26, 2005, 28 years after the 1977 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N74GC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N74GC: Accident on June 29, 1987 at Grand Canyon, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX87LA250Accident on June 29, 1987 at Grand Canyon, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-6-300 · operated under 135

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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