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A Cessna U206 Stationair, the same model family as N4886U
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N4886U

Cessna U206G

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N4886U is a Cessna U206G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboshaft engines, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Skycase Leasing LLC, an LLC in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 1979.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bal, INC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
U206G · all U206Gs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
U20605144
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
TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (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
1979
Cruising speed
132 mph
Transponder code
A6098E (octal 51404616)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 13, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 13, 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 · June 29, 1979
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00590445

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skycase Leasing 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 870275
Wasilla, AK 99687-0275

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 N4886U, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Skycase Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 13, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 29, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U20605144 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4886U according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4886U: Accident on August 31, 2008 at Galena, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC08LA113Accident on August 31, 2008 at Galena, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: U20606144

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 206 · operated under 091

The en route loss of engine power due to a mechanic's failure to tighten a fuel line fitting, which became disconnected in flight.

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data