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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2C1
N500FA is a Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Kingfisher Air INC, a corporation in Kodiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 12, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Found Acft Canada Inc
- Model
- FBA-2C1 · all FBA-2C1s 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 Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 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
- 40
- 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 IO-540-L1C5 · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A63A6E (octal 51435156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 2, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- 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 · October 12, 2012
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01105505
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kingfisher Air INC
- 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
- PO Box 2609
Kodiak, AK 99615-2609
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N500FA links to the rest of the register
- Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 19 registered
- Found Acft Canada Inc 19 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-L1C5 18 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Kingfisher Air INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Kodiak, AK 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Kodiak Airport · ADQ
- Kodiak Municipal · KDK
- Kodiak/Lilly Lake Seaplane Base · 9Z3
- Trident Basin Seaplane Base · T44
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 40 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 97 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-L1C5 28 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N500FA, 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 Kingfisher Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 2, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500FA 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]
1 NTSB record under N500FA: Accident on September 11, 2014 at Cascade, ID: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Found Acft Canada INC FBA 2C1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data