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N16GB

Cessna TU206F

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIdaho

N16GB is a Cessna TU206F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Star, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 7, 1973.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
TU206F · all TU206Fs and related versions
Serial number
U20602075
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
A0EFED (octal 50167755)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
July 13, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 13, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 7, 1973
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00920827

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wester Lawrence Cale
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
9802 W Deep Canyon Dr
Star, ID 83669-5303

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1988-08-15Beggs PITTS S-1 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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The public federal record on N16GB, 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 Wester Lawrence Cale, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 7, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U20602075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N16GB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beggs PITTS S-1 (serial 494H, cancelled August 15, 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 N16GB: Accident on December 20, 1986 at El Paso, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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

FTW87DQA01Accident on December 20, 1986 at El Paso, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 494-4

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beggs PITTS S-1 · operated under 091

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