Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B
N286AM is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1B · all A-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2286
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2E451 (octal 50562121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00138149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kangas Randy R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1264 W Chena Hills Dr
Fairbanks, AK 99709-5750
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.
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The public federal record on N286AM, 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 Kangas Randy R, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N286AM 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]
1 NTSB record under N286AM: Accident on August 9, 2013 at Arctic Village, 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: Aviat Aircraft INC A-1B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while maneuvering at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC13CA077 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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