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N1837M, a Curtiss Wright C-46F
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N1837M

Curtiss Wright C-46F

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N1837M is a Curtiss Wright C-46F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 65 seats. It is registered to Everts Air Fuel INC, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 1990 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated February 4, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Curtiss Wright
Model
C-46F · all C-46Fs 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 Curtiss Wright C-46 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
22388
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
65
Year built
1944
Cruising speed
180 mph
Transponder code
A14F2A (octal 50247452)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 13, 1990
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 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 · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 4, 2025
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00875261

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Everts Air Fuel 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
PO Box 60908
Fairbanks, AK 99706-0908

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N1837M links to the rest of the register

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Engine
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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1837M, 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 Everts Air Fuel INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 13, 1990, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 4, 2025, 81 years after the 1944 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1837M 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1837M: Accident on July 3, 2013 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

ANC13LA063Accident on July 3, 2013 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright C-46F · operated under 091

The failure of the right main landing gear side brace due to fatigue, which resulted in a collapse of the right main landing gear.

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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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data