{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2009-09-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-05-24","city":"YAKUTAT","country_code":"US","county_code":"232","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"64006","engine_horsepower":751,"engine_maker":"WALTER","engine_model":"M601E-11","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"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":"2802412","mode_s_code":"52260544","mode_s_hex":"A96164","model":"DHC-3","n_number":"N703TH","name":"MUNICH HANS W DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Yakutat","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-05-24","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ANC22LA035","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to determine the actual weight and balance of the airplane before departure, which resulted in the airplane being operated outside of the aft center of gravity limits and the subsequent aerodynamic stall on final approach. Contributing to the accident was the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require weight and balance documentation for 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 single-engine operations.","registration":"N703TH","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on May 24, 2022 at Yakutat, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"YAKUTAT COSTAL AIRLINES","plain_english":"N703TH is a Dehavilland DHC-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1966. It has 11 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yakutat, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2010 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Munich Hans W DBA, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2010, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2009, 43 years after the 1966 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 456 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N703TH 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 N703TH: Accident on May 24, 2022 at Yakutat, AK: serious 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":11,"serial_number":"456","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 163","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01038614","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N703TH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1966,"zip":"996890163"}
