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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Nusbaum Steve J-6 KARATOO
N46SN is a Nusbaum Steve J-6 KARATOO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Osceola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nusbaum Steve
- Model
- J-6 KARATOO
- Serial number
- 31346
- 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 A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A598DF (octal 51314337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 13, 1987
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00555370
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clark Travis P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 701 e Clay St
Osceola, IA 50213-1306
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N46SN links to the rest of the register
- Nusbaum Steve 3 aircraft on the register
- Continental A75 / C75 series 1,505 aircraft with this engine series · 75 hp
- Osceola, IA 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Osceola Municipal · I75
- Iowa 4,513 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N46SN, 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 Clark Travis P, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 1987, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31346 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N46SN 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 N46SN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data