Yakovlev/Williams J A YAK 3UPW
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
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N1906 links to the rest of the register
- Yakovlev/Williams J A 1 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Carlsbad Raceway CORP 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to July 27, 2027
- Hemet, CA 96 aircraft registered in this town
- Hemet-Ryan Airport · HMT
- California 28,134 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 12 reports since 1995
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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.
Valid registration to Carlsbad Raceway CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 11, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N1906: Accident on May 3, 2012 at Chefornak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: 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
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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
