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N1206J

Irwin Jeffrey C BUCCANEER BIIB

N1206J is an Irwin Jeffrey C BUCCANEER BIIB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hickory, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 4, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Irwin Jeffrey C
Model
BUCCANEER BIIB
Serial number
BIIBK005
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A056E5 (octal 50053345)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 17, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 17, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 4, 2019
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00586151

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bradshaw Benjamin L
Type
Individual
Address
2700 43Rd Ave NE
Hickory, NC 28601-7532

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1988-04-06Rockwell International 112TC · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N1206J, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bradshaw Benjamin L, an individual, certificate issued June 17, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BIIBK005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1206J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 112TC (serial 13036, cancelled April 6, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1206J: Accident on August 19, 2023 at Sopchoppy, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA23LA390Accident on August 19, 2023 at Sopchoppy, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Irwin Jeffrey C BUCCANEER BIIB · operated under 091

The pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data