Dehavilland DHC-3
N87AW is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1954. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Summit Leasing LLC, an LLC in Kenai, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2004 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 22, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-3 · all DHC-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- ABF412 (octal 52772022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2004
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 22, 1997
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00336011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summit Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1508
Kenai, AK 99611-1508
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 N87AW, 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 Summit Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 4, 2004, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 1997, 43 years after the 1954 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 52 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87AW 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 N87AW: Accident on May 28, 2011 at Bettles Field, 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-3T · operated under 135
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for the landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC11LA048 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