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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2
N98EL is a Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Alaskas Enchanted Lake Lodge INC, a corporation in King Salmon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 1990 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated April 1, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland-Kenmore
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s 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 Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2 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
- 1416
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA93A (octal 53324472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 1990
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 1, 1999
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00870694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaskas Enchanted Lake Lodge INC
- 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 97
King Salmon, AK 99613-0097
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N98EL links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland-Kenmore DHC-2 7 registered
- Dehavilland-Kenmore 7 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Alaskas Enchanted Lake Lodge INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- King Salmon, AK 62 aircraft registered in this town
- King Salmon Airport · AKN
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N98EL, 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 Alaskas Enchanted Lake Lodge INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 30, 1990, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 1, 1999, 38 years after the 1961 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 1416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98EL 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 N98EL: Accident on June 11, 1987 at King Salmon, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-2 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data