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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-5-235C · all M-5-235Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 7190C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 18, 2024
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00111496
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Papa Bear Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC86LAG02 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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