Taquan Air (Venture Travel, LLC)
Flies as Taquan Air, as its own website says; the certificate is in the name Venture Travel, LLC. Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator TQ0A, overseen by the FAA office coded AL05. 10 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly DHC-2-MKI. Based in Ketchikan, Alaska, the address on its DOT certificate.
Website: taquanair.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
The Department of Transportation certificates it for interstate scheduled passenger service, trading as Taquan Air; the DOT's list says it is operating. The DOT's economic authority is separate from the FAA's safety certificate: both are needed to sell seats or cargo space to the public.
About Taquan Air (Venture Travel, LLC) from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Taquan Air operates flightseeing tours and scheduled floatplane flights in Southeast Alaska from Ketchikan. The company has been in operation for almost 50 years and also provides charter flights and freight delivery.
- Calls itself
- Taquan Air
- What it is
- Tour operator
- Bases
- Ketchikan, AK
- Aircraft it names
- De Havilland Beaver, De Havilland Otter
- Services
- flightseeing tours, scheduled flights, charter flights, freight delivery
- Address
- 4085 Tongass Ave, Ketchikan, AK, 99901
- Telephone
- +19072258800
- Elsewhere
- Facebook Instagram LinkedIn
Written by the site from the pages of taquanair.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 10 not heard since the site began listening.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Hiring 3 openings on Taquan Air (Venture Travel, LLC)'s own website
- Seasonal Seaplane Pilot · Ketchikan, Alabama
- Freight/Dock Hand · Ketchikan, Alabama
- Tour Sales & Services Manager · Ketchikan, Alabama
Read from the employer's site; applications go there. Every aviation opening.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 3 on the certificate
- Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 2 on the certificate
- Dehavilland DHC-3 2 on the certificate
- Dehavilland DHC-2 1 on the certificate
- Dehavilland Canada DHC-3 1 on the certificate
- Dehavilland 9 on the certificate
- Dehavilland Canada 1 on the certificate
- Ketchikan, AK · the address on its DOT certificate
- Ketchikan International · KTN
- Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base · 5KE
- Murphys Pullout Seaplane Base · 8K9
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 10 aircraft listed · designator TQ0A
- DOT certificated air carrier · Interstate scheduled passenger, operating
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/venture-travel-llc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 10 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
DHC-2-MKI 7
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N1018A | Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1951 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N37756 | Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1961 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N5160G | Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 | |
| N67590 | Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1952 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N67673 | Dehavilland DHC-2 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1957 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N67676 | Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1954 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N68010 | Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1958 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
DHC-3-3 3
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N3324T | Dehavilland DHC-3 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1957 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N51441 | Dehavilland DHC-3 | Sunset Holdings LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1960 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N92858 | Dehavilland Canada DHC-3 | Blue Aircraft LLC Ketchikan, AK | 1953 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate, November 9, 2026; the Department of Transportation's certificated air carriers list, November 1, 2026; the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, November 9, 2026; the volunteer receiver network for what is in the air. An aircraft on a charter certificate is often owned by someone else and managed by the operator. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: fix the base, add your website, send your own pictures. Add the "Listed on eFlight" badge to your website.