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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206C · all U206Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- U206-0970
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A49F29 (octal 51117451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 2, 1967
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00730774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Back Country Flying Experience INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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]
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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna U206C · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control while landing in gusty winds.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA321 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna U206C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI87LA134 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data