Arctic Aircraft Co Inc S-1B2
N55AD is an Arctic Aircraft Co Inc S-1B2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 4, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arctic Aircraft Co Inc
- Model
- S-1B2 · all S-1B2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A6FD16 (octal 51576426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 4, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00473365
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schrage Rodney L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 770488
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477-0488
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 N55AD, 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 Schrage Rodney L, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 4, 1980, 3 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55AD 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]
3 NTSB records under N55AD: Accident on April 23, 2004 at Big Lake, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 26, 1990 at Beluga River, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 24, 1988 at Hartman River, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arctic Aircraft Corp. S-1B2 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to insure that the carburetor heat was activated by the dual student following a simulated loss of engine power, which resulted in carburetor ice and the actual loss of engine power during a descent. A factor associated with the accident is carburetor icing weather conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Interstate S1B1 · operated under 091
THE PILOT SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE THE SOFT TERRAIN AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN OFF-AIRPORT OPERATIONS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Artic Aircraft Corp. S-1B2 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data