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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Textron Aviation Inc T206H
N489CA is a Textron Aviation Inc T206H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 11, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 12:40 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- T206H · all T206Hs 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 T206 Turbo 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
- T20609801
- 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 · Lycoming TIO-540-AJ1A · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A60A3B (octal 51405073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 28, 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 · April 11, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01484876
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol
- 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
- 105 S Hansell St Bldg 714
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-5937
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N489CA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna T206 Turbo Stationair 1,059 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,413 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540-AJ1A 720 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Civil Air Patrol 468 aircraft in the fleet
- Maxwell Afb, AL 572 aircraft registered in this town
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna T206 Turbo Stationair 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna T206 Turbo Stationair 157 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna T206 Turbo Stationair 293 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540-AJ1A 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540-AJ1A 102 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sealant, vibration · 2005-09-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, malfunctioned · 2005-08-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Priority Valve, malfunctioned · 2003-08-25
- Where N489CA is now · Last seen October 14 at 12:40 pm.
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The public federal record on N489CA, 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued June 28, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 11, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T20609801 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N489CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210N (serial 21063432, cancelled December 9, 2019). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N489CA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data