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N924MA, a Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER
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N924MA

Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArizona

N924MA is a Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1969. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Para Drop, a corporation in Eloy, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 1994 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1969.

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Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
DHC-6 TWIN OTTER · all DHC-6 TWIN OTTERs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dehavilland DHC-6 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
216
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 · U/A Canada PT6 SER 578HP · 550 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
16
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
123 mph
Transponder code
ACCE1A (octal 53147032)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 14, 1994
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
December 20, 2024
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 1969
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00690731

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Para Drop
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
5100 N Tumbleweed Rd
Eloy, AZ 85131-9790

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N924MA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Para Drop 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N924MA.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N924MA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Para Drop, a corporation, certificate issued April 14, 1994, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N924MA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N924MA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data