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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026
N6796D

Brantly B-2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N6796D is a Brantly B-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mat-Su Air Service INC, a corporation in Willow, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 9, 1959.

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Aircraft

Maker
Brantly
Model
B-2 · all B-2s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Brantly B-2 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
5
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A90055 (octal 52200125)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 24, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
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 · September 9, 1959
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00183516

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mat-Su Air Service 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 21
Willow, AK 99688-0021

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N6796D links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N6796D, 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 Mat-Su Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 24, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated September 9, 1959, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6796D 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6796D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data