Dehavilland DHC-2-L-20
N9279Z is a Dehavilland DHC-2-L-20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Snow Mountain Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 8, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2-L-20 · all DHC-2-L-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 345
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- ACDBD6 (octal 53155726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 8, 1976
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00890631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Snow Mountain Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1249 Tongass Ave Ste A
Ketchikan, AK 99901-6135
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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 N9279Z, 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 Snow Mountain Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 4, 2004, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 1976, 24 years after the 1952 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 345 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9279Z 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 N9279Z: Accident on July 9, 2021 at Coffman Cove, 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-2-L-20 · operated under 091
The pilot’s impact with a buoy on takeoff which resulted in a nose-over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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