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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Cessna TU206G
N129EL is a Cessna TU206G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Trooien-Smith Construction LLC, an LLC in Seeley Lake, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 6, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- TU206G · all TU206Gs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna TU206 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- U20604374
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A07590 (octal 50072620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 6, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00350700
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trooien-Smith Construction LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1446
Seeley Lake, MT 59868-1446
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N129EL links to the rest of the register
- Cessna TU206 344 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520 series 4,112 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Trooien-Smith Construction LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Seeley Lake, MT 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Seeley Lake Airport · 23S
- Lindey'S Landing West Seaplane Base · M35
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna TU206 44 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna TU206 182 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna TU206 491 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520 series 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520 series 412 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N129EL.json.
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The public federal record on N129EL, 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.
Valid registration to Trooien-Smith Construction LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 6, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U20604374 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N129EL according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N129EL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data