{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-06-30","airworthiness_ops":"Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-18","city":"FAIRBANKS","country_code":"US","county_code":"090","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51654","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-985-AN-14B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-27","maker":"Dehavilland Acft Canada Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND ACFT CANADA LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2821703","mode_s_code":"53371475","mode_s_hex":"ADF33D","model":"DHC-2","n_number":"N99838","name":"CHILD BENJAMIN HARRISON","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"NEWARK","damage":"","date":"1993-03-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DCA93IA027","probable_cause":"THE FLIGHTCREW'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES THAT REQUIRED A MINIMUM PROPELLER SPPED WHILE FLYING IN ICING CONDITION.  CONTRIBUTING TO THE LOSS OF ROLL CONTROL WERE THE ENCOUNTERS WITH SEVERE TURBULENCE AND ICING CONDITIONS.","registration":"N99838","state":"NJ","summary":"Incident on March 4, 1993 at Newark, NJ: no injuries.","type":"INC"},{"city":"BERING RIVER","damage":"SUBS","date":"1985-06-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC85LA101","probable_cause":"","registration":"N99838","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on June 20, 1985 at Bering River, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N99838 is a Dehavilland Acft Canada Ltd DHC-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated June 30, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Child Benjamin Harrison, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 30, 2025, 70 years after the 1955 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 792 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N99838 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A (serial 792, cancelled February 16, 1989); Erco 415-C (serial 2461, cancelled August 15, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"2 NTSB records under N99838: Incident on March 4, 1993 at Newark, NJ: no injuries. Accident on June 20, 1985 at Bering River, AK: no 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":8,"serial_number":"792","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2085 BOREAL HEIGHTS LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01510520","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N99838","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1955,"zip":"997122942"}