Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B
N6696K is a Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Valley Air Service LTD, a corporation in Colusa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 15, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
- Model
- G-164B · all G-164Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 426B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- A8D8DC (octal 52154334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00973256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley Air Service LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 178
Colusa, CA 95932-0178
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 N6696K, 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 Valley Air Service LTD, a corporation, certificate issued October 9, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 15, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 426B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6696K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Republic RC-3 (serial 979, cancelled date not given). 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 N6696K: Accident on July 9, 2018 at Colusa, CA: 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: Grumman G164B · operated under 137
Total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR18LA189 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