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N4896F

Cessna U206A

Valid Texas

N4896F is a Cessna U206A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Seymour, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 13, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
U206A · all U206As and related versions
Serial number
U206-0596
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
132 mph
Transponder code
A60D38 (octal 51406470)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 18, 2015
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 13, 1966
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00480485

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Porter Carl S
Type
Co-owned
Address
399 Willingham Loop
Seymour, TX 76380-7051
Co-owners
Porter Charles Thomas JR / Pickett Henry II

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4896F, 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 Porter Carl S, a co-owned, certificate issued February 18, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 13, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U206-0596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4896F 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 N4896F: Accident on March 15, 2003 at Honesdale, PA: no 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

IAD03LA038Accident on March 15, 2003 at Honesdale, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna U206A · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing. A factor was the crosswind.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD03LA038 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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