Dehavilland DHC-2
N814DW is a Dehavilland DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Wrangell Mountain Air INC, a corporation in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2005 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 9, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 34
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1949
- Transponder code
- AB1898 (octal 52614230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2005
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 9, 2005
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00186699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wrangell Mountain Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1888
Palmer, AK 99645-1888
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.
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The public federal record on N814DW, 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 Wrangell Mountain Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 6, 2005, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 9, 2005, 56 years after the 1949 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 34 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N814DW 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 N814DW: Accident on July 12, 2023 at Mccarthy, 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: Dehavilland DHC-2 · operated under 135
A failure of the right brake caliper bolts during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC23LA052 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