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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Snow 600-S2C
N1697S is a Snow 600-S2C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Linton, North Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued March 23, 2004). It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 3, 1965.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Snow
- Model
- 600-S2C · all 600-S2Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The original Snow crop sprayer, later the Thrush. This is how the Snow 600 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
- 600-1257C
- 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 · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A1167B (octal 50213173)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 3, 1965
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00222260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gunia Michel L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 23
Linton, ND 58552-0023
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1697S links to the rest of the register
- Snow 600 7 registered
- Snow 19 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Linton, ND 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Linton Municipal · 7L2
- North Dakota 2,493 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Snow 600 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Snow 600 42 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1697S, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 3, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 600-1257C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1697S 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 N1697S. 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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data