{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1968-03-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1990-06-22","city":"GARDINER","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":123,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"61501","engine_horsepower":550,"engine_maker":"U/A CANADA","engine_model":"PT6 SER 578HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2802606","mode_s_code":"52311606","mode_s_hex":"A99386","model":"DHC-6 TWIN OTTER","n_number":"N716NC","name":"FREEFALL EXPRESS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"RAEFORD","damage":"","date":"1996-04-27","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"MIA96LA135","probable_cause":"failure of the passenger to follow the instructions of ground personnel as she exited the aircraft.","registration":"N716NC","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on April 27, 1996 at Raeford, NC: fatal (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N716NC is a Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1968. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Freefall Express INC, a corporation in Gardiner, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 1990 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 20, 1968.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Freefall Express INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 22, 1990, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 20, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 110 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N716NC 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 N716NC: Accident on April 27, 1996 at Raeford, NC: fatal (1 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":16,"serial_number":"110","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 269","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00774580","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N716NC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"125250269"}