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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- AT-6A · all AT-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 78-6632
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A13DC6 (octal 50236706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00752510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Somer Charles Michael
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC82FHM06 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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