Bombardier Inc DHC-8-315
N800AW is a Bombardier Inc DHC-8-315, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 48 seats. It is registered to US Department Of State, a government body in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bombardier Inc
- Model
- DHC-8-315 · all DHC-8-315s and related versions
- Serial number
- 573
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors
- Seats
- 48
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAE1F2 (octal 52560762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01054516
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department Of State
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 6767 N Wickham Rd Ste 201
Melbourne, FL 32940-2025
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N800AW, 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 US Department Of State, a government body, certificate issued January 7, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 573 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N800AW was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Gates Learjet Corp. 35A (serial 149, cancelled May 17, 2006); Swearingen SA-226T (serial T403, cancelled November 28, 1988). 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]
3 NTSB records under N800AW: Accident on October 17, 2012 at Kabul: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 19, 2004 at Utica, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 10, 1988 at Pontiac, MI: fatal, destroyed (3 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bombardier INC DHC-8-315 · operated under PUBU
the captains ineffective management of the airplanes energy state during final approach and flare that resulted in a hard landing and tail strike at touchdown.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA13CA008 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gates Learjet 35A · operated under 135
The copilot's failure to maintain airspeed, and the captain's delayed remedial action, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and the subsequent hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04LA088 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild SA226T · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88FA041 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data