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A Cessna 207 Skywagon 207, the same model family as N1587U
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N1587U

Cessna 207

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N1587U is a Cessna 207, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 10, 1970.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Grant Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
207 · all 207s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 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
20700187
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 IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
67 mph
Transponder code
A0EB47 (octal 50165507)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 12, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
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 · August 10, 1970
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00730960

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grant Aviation INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
6420 Kulis Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1816
Charter N1587U with Grant Aviation INC:

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N1587U links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1587U, 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 Grant Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; 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 20700187 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1587U according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1587U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data