Maule M-5-235C
N6198M is a Maule M-5-235C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Papa Bear Adventures INC, a corporation in Bethel, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 2024.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Ptarmigan Air LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-5-235C · all M-5-235Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-5 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
- 7190C
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A813A9 (octal 52011651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 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 · August 18, 2024
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00111496
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Papa Bear Adventures 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 2509
Bethel, AK 99559-2509
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
Connections how N6198M links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-5 364 registered
- Maule 1,345 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ptarmigan Air LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Papa Bear Adventures INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bethel, AK 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Bethel Airport · BET
- Bethel Seaplane Base · Z59
- Hangar Lake Seaplane Base · Z58
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-5 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-5 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-5 211 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6198M, 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 Papa Bear Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 18, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7190C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6198M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-4198, cancelled July 7, 1965). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6198M: Accident on October 8, 1985 at King Salmon, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M5-235C · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data