Dehavilland-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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland-Kenmore
- Model
- DHC-2 · all DHC-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1416
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 1990
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · April 1, 1999
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00870694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaskas Enchanted Lake Lodge INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 97
King Salmon, AK 99613-0097
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.
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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]
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: De Havilland DHC-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC87LA078 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