{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1986-11-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-27","city":"HOMER","country_code":"US","county_code":"122","cruise_speed_mph":95,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52016","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R1340 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-27","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2800202","mode_s_code":"50463157","mode_s_hex":"A2666F","model":"DHC-3","n_number":"N254AW","name":"DESTINATION ALASKA AIR SERVICE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Cordova","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-09-07","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ANC01LA138","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power during cruise due to the fracture of an engine cylinder exhaust valve.","registration":"N254AW","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on September 7, 2001 at Cordova, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N254AW is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Destination Alaska Air Service LLC, an LLC in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1986.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Destination Alaska Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 27, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 1986, 29 years after the 1957 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 254 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N254AW 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 N254AW: Accident on September 7, 2001 at Cordova, AK: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":16,"serial_number":"254","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 778","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00163526","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N254AW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1957,"zip":"996030778"}