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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Short Bros SD3-60
N915GD is a Short Bros SD3-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1989. It has 39 seats. It is registered to Air Charter INC DBA, a corporation in Culebra, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 4, 2001.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Charter, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 12:16 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Bros
- Model
- SD3-60 · all SD3-60s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Short Bros SD3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- SH3755
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 39
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- ACA9D8 (octal 53124730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2013
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 4, 2001
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00793844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Charter INC DBA
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 224
Culebra, PR 00775-0224 - Co-owners
- Air Flamenco
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.
Connections how N915GD links to the rest of the register
- Short Bros SD3 41 registered
- Short Bros 66 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Charter, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Air Charter INC DBA 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Culebra, PR 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Puerto Rico 491 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Short Bros SD3 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Short Bros SD3 319 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Short Bros SD3 60 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Where N915GD is now · Last seen October 13 at 12:16 pm.
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The public federal record on N915GD, 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 Air Charter INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued December 23, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 4, 2001, 12 years after the 1989 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 SH3755 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N915GD 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 N915GD: Accident on November 6, 2024 at Roadtown: damage not recorded. 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: Short Bros SD3-60 · operated under NUSC
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data