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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-60 · all MU-2B-60s 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 Mitsubishi MU-2 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
- 764 S.A.
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A17F89 (octal 50277611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2008
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2026
- 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 · November 14, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00832990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stef Air 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
- PO Box 4049
Muscle Shoals, AL 35662-4049
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N196MA links to the rest of the register
- Mitsubishi MU-2 177 registered
- Mitsubishi 199 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331 series 492 aircraft with this engine series · 904 hp
- Stef Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Muscle Shoals, AL 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Northwest Alabama Regional · MSL
- Alabama 4,341 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mitsubishi MU-2 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mitsubishi MU-2 274 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mitsubishi MU-2 340 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Servo, burned · 1996-04-10
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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 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