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N6686G

Beech A36TC

Valid Arkansas

N6686G is a Beech A36TC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Darco Hotels INC, a corporation in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated January 7, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
A36TC · all A36TCs and related versions
Serial number
EA189
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
6
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A8D522 (octal 52152442)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 26, 2004
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · January 7, 1981
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00751773

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Darco Hotels INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3909 NE Cadbury Ave
Bentonville, AR 72712-8956

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 2

1989-11-15Cessna 404 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response
1971-06-09Cessna 150L · exported to Israel · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6686G, 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 Darco Hotels INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 26, 2004, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated January 7, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EA189 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6686G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 404 (serial 4040206, cancelled November 15, 1989); Cessna 150L (serial 15072186, cancelled June 9, 1971). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6686G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data