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N6146W

Air Tractor Inc AT-401B

Valid Montana

N6146W is an Air Tractor Inc AT-401B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Adara Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-401B · all AT-401Bs and related versions
Serial number
401B-0979
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A800D9 (octal 52000331)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 20, 2014
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00715442

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Adara Aircraft LLC
Type
LLC
Address
20 Found Horse Trl
Hamilton, MT 59840

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1991-06-06Piper PA-28-140 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N6146W, 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 Adara Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 20, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401B-0979 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6146W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2820165, cancelled June 6, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6146W: Accident on July 14, 1990 at Grand Marais, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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

CHI90FA185Accident on July 14, 1990 at Grand Marais, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 2820165

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091

POOR JUDGEMENT OF THE PILOT DUE TO HIS IMPAIRMENT FROM CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: PILOT FATIGUE DUE TO LACK OF SLEEP.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI90FA185 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