Dehavilland DHC-3 — Airworthiness Directives & records checklist
73 Dehavilland DHC-3s are on the U.S. registry. Here’s what a records review covers for one — the Airworthiness Directives that apply, the known trouble spots, and the checklist a buyer or owner should hold every logbook against.
Airworthiness Directives that apply to the Dehavilland DHC-3
- one-timeAD 88-15-08 — Airworthiness Directives; DeHavilland Model DHC-3 Series Airplanes · 1988-01-01
- one-timeAD 86-16-12 — Airworthiness Directives; DeHavilland Model DHC-3 Series Airplanes · 1986-01-01
- one-timeAD 83-04-05 — Airworthiness Directives; DeHavilland Model DHC-3 Series Airplanes · 1983-01-01
- one-timeAD 83-02-01 — Airworthiness Directives; DeHavilland Model DHC-3 (Military U-IA) Series Airplanes · 1983-01-01
This is the applicability list. Which of these are complied with, their computed next-due dates, and the 4 serial/mod-conditional ADs that actually apply to your aircraft come from its digitized logbooks — that’s the verified report.
The records checklist for a Dehavilland DHC-3
Enter a tail number and Tailplate reads its logbooks against this list — every AD matched to compliance evidence, next-due dates computed, damage history pulled, and a records-adjusted value.
Look up a tail number →or see the free AD listApplicability is derived from the FAA directive corpus and the aircraft’s type certificate; it is advisory and not a legal airworthiness determination. Compliance is established only from an aircraft’s actual records.