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N65AT

Arctic Aircraft Co Inc S-1B2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N65AT is an Arctic Aircraft Co Inc S-1B2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 28, 1981.

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Aircraft

Maker
Arctic Aircraft Co Inc
Model
S-1B2 · all S-1B2s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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. A new-production Interstate Cadet. This is how the Arctic Aircraft Co Inc S-1 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
1016
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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A88A73 (octal 52105163)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 9, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 9, 2024
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 1981
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00902496

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rhodes Steven D
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 191087
Anchorage, AK 99519-1087
Co-owners
Rhodes Kassidy M

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N65AT links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Live

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N65AT, 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 Rhodes Steven D, a co-owned, certificate issued April 9, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 28, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N65AT according to the deregistered file. [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 N65AT: Accident on May 29, 1982 at Near Big Lake, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC82DA043Accident on May 29, 1982 at Near Big Lake, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arctic S1B2 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data