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N1906, a Yakovlev/Williams J A YAK 3UPW
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026
N1906

Yakovlev/Williams J A YAK 3UPW

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N1906 is a Yakovlev/Williams J A YAK 3UPW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Carlsbad Raceway CORP, a corporation in Hemet, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 11, 2005.

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Aircraft

Maker
Yakovlev/Williams J A
Model
YAK 3UPW
Serial number
005
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 R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A16B55 (octal 50265525)

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 8, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 8, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 11, 2005
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00169069

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Carlsbad Raceway CORP
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
3507 W Stetson Ave Pmb 101
Hemet, CA 92545-9740

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 3

2015-01-02Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3 · exported to Poland · Valid registration
1994-03-18Boeing 727-23 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration
1931-01-08American Eagle Aircraft Corp 230 · Valid registration

Connections how N1906 links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Yakovlev/Williams J A 1 aircraft on the register
Engine
Owner
  • Carlsbad Raceway CORP 11 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to July 27, 2027
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N1906, 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 Carlsbad Raceway CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 11, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1906 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3 (serial SH1906, cancelled January 2, 2015); Boeing 727-23 (serial 19181, cancelled March 18, 1994); American Eagle Aircraft Corp 230 (serial 63, cancelled January 8, 1931). 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 N1906: Accident on May 3, 2012 at Chefornak, 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

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NTSB records 1

ANC12CA036Accident on May 3, 2012 at Chefornak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: SH1906

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 3 · operated under 135

The pilot's misidentification of a nearby snow-covered road as the snow-covered runway in flat light conditions.

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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data