Cessna U206C
N3970G is a Cessna U206C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Back Country Flying Experience INC, a corporation in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 2, 1967.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Backcountry Flying Experience, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 4:06 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206C · all U206Cs 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 Cessna U206 Stationair 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
- U206-0970
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A49F29 (octal 51117451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 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 · November 2, 1967
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00730774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Back Country Flying Experience INC
- 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
- 1835 Airport Rd
Kalispell, MT 59901-7501
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.
Connections how N3970G links to the rest of the register
- Cessna U206 Stationair 798 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Backcountry Flying Experience, Inc. · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Back Country Flying Experience INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kalispell, MT 1,287 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,044 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna U206 Stationair 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna U206 Stationair 791 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna U206 Stationair 516 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Where N3970G is now · Last seen October 29 at 4:06 pm.
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The public federal record on N3970G, 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 Back Country Flying Experience INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 18, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 2, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U206-0970 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3970G 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]
2 NTSB records under N3970G: Accident on May 25, 2009 at Brainerd, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 29, 1987 at Grand Rapids, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna U206C · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control while landing in gusty winds.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna U206C · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data