Dehavilland DHC-2 MK 1
N85HC is a Dehavilland DHC-2 MK 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Rapids Camp Lodge, a corporation in King Salmon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 MK 1 · all DHC-2 MK 1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1261
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1959
- Transponder code
- ABA5B1 (octal 52722661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 12, 2016
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00550627
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rapids Camp Lodge
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 501
King Salmon, AK 99613-0501
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N85HC, 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 Rapids Camp Lodge, a corporation, certificate issued June 12, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 2016, 57 years after the 1959 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 1261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85HC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17264426, cancelled September 11, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N85HC: Accident on July 24, 1991 at Phillips, ME: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
AN INADVERTENT STALL AND LOSS OF CONTROL DUE TO THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE WING FLAPS FOR TAKEOFF. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF AIRPLANE PERFORMANCE, AND THE PILOT'S DECISION TO TAKEOFF UPHILL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91FA188 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