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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026North American HARVARD II A
N196FC is a North American HARVARD II A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ghost River Aero LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 18, 1992.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 3:13 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- HARVARD II A · all HARVARD II As 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 HARVARD II A 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
- BW196
- 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
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Transponder code
- A17EF5 (octal 50277365)
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 12, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 12, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 18, 1992
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00523682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ghost River Aero LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N196FC links to the rest of the register
- North American HARVARD II A 5 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
- Ghost River Aero LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lewes, DE 895 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
- Where N196FC is now · Last seen October 16 at 3:13 pm.
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The public federal record on N196FC, 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 Ghost River Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 12, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 18, 1992, 51 years after the 1941 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BW196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196FC according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N196FC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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