Dehavilland DHC-2
N906JS is a Dehavilland DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Destination Alaska Air Service LLC, an LLC in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 22, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1659 TB34
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1966
- Transponder code
- AC864F (octal 53103117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 22, 1984
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00830294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Destination Alaska Air Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 778
Homer, AK 99603-0778
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N906JS, 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 Destination Alaska Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 1984, 18 years after the 1966 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 1659 TB34 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N906JS 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]
2 NTSB records under N906JS: Accident on July 8, 2012 at Cantwell, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 4, 1988 at Fairbanks, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dehavilland DHC-2 · operated under 135
The right seat passenger’s inadvertent contact with the emergency fuel shutoff valve, which resulted in fuel starvation and a total loss of engine power. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to provide a thorough preflight briefing to the passenger seated in the cockpit.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC12CA070 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC88LA123 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