{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2015-03-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-06-10","city":"KIRKLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52247","engine_horsepower":680,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-27","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2802630","mode_s_code":"50261264","mode_s_hex":"A162B4","model":"DHC-6-300","n_number":"N189GC","name":"CORTEZ FISHER LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Whitmore","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-09","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR25LA248","probable_cause":"","registration":"N189GC","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on August 9, 2025 at Whitmore, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N189GC is a Dehavilland DHC-6-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 22 seats. It is registered to Cortez Fisher LLC, an LLC in Kirkland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 15, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Cortez Fisher LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 2015, 34 years after the 1981 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 772 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N189GC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N189GC: Accident on August 9, 2025 at Whitmore, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":22,"serial_number":"772","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12515 WILLOWS RD NE STE 200","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00685031","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N189GC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"980348795"}