Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A
N8523 is a Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Beaver Chase Air LLC, an LLC in Brighton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 6, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- BEAVER U-6A · all BEAVER U-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1262
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 122 mph
- Transponder code
- ABB187 (octal 52730607)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 6, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00252761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beaver Chase Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7772 Park Pl
Brighton, MI 48116-8387
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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 N8523, 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 Beaver Chase Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 1, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1262 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8523 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 N8523: Accident on May 3, 2000 at Kenmore, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland U-6A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft during the landing roll. Contributing factors were the power wave created by the nearby yacht, the rough water conditions, and the pilot's loss of visual contact with the wave during the rollout.
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- 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