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North American AT-6A
N1796 is a North American AT-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hillsboro, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 10, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- AT-6A · all AT-6As 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 North American AT-6 Texan 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
- 78-6632
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A13DC6 (octal 50236706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 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 · March 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00752510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Somer Charles Michael
- 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
- 3845 NE 30Th Ave
Hillsboro, OR 97124-4700
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 2
Connections how N1796 links to the rest of the register
- North American AT-6 Texan 228 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of 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
- Hillsboro, OR 370 aircraft registered in this town
- Stark'S Twin Oaks Airpark · 7S3
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the North American AT-6 Texan 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the North American AT-6 Texan 117 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1796, 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 Somer Charles Michael, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-6632 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1796 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Spezio Sport DAL 1 (serial 206, cancelled January 31, 2013); Advance Aircraft Co WACO 10 (serial 924, cancelled December 4, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N1796: Accident on April 25, 1982 at Lagrange, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Spezio SPORT DAL-1 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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