Mitsubishi MU-2B-60
N196MA is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Stef Air LLC, an LLC in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2008 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-60 · all MU-2B-60s and related versions
- Serial number
- 764 S.A.
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A17F89 (octal 50277611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2008
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 14, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00832990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stef Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 4049
Muscle Shoals, AL 35662-4049
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N196MA, 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 Stef Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 15, 2008, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 764 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196MA 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 N196MA. 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 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