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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2
N77KZ is a Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Coho Air LLC, an LLC in Kodiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated September 7, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Sea Hawk Air, 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
- BEAVER DHC-2 · all BEAVER DHC-2s 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 BEAVER DHC-2 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
- 950
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 122 mph
- Transponder code
- AA67A7 (octal 52463647)
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 23, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 7, 2007
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00884280
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coho Air 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
- 818 Steller Way
Kodiak, AK 99615-6489
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.
Connections how N77KZ links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 38 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Sea Hawk Air, Inc · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 77 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Coho Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kodiak, AK 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Kodiak Airport · ADQ
- Kodiak Municipal · KDK
- Kodiak/Lilly Lake Seaplane Base · 9Z3
- Trident Basin Seaplane Base · T44
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 536 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N77KZ, 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 Coho Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 23, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 7, 2007, 52 years after the 1955 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 950 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N77KZ 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 N77KZ: Accident on September 22, 2019 at Mountain Village, 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: De Havilland BEAVER DHC 2 · operated under 135
The pilot's improper takeoff configuration due to distraction, which resulted in the airplane’s failure to become airborne and its subsequent collision with rising terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to use the Before Takeoff checklist.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data