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Kodiak Aircraft Co Inc KODIAK 100
N68AS is a Kodiak Aircraft Co Inc KODIAK 100, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2022. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Papa Bear LLC, an LLC in Sarasota, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 15, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kodiak Aircraft Co Inc
- Model
- KODIAK 100 · all KODIAK 100s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Kodiak Aircraft Co Inc KODIAK 100 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
- 100-0307
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-34 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A900EF (octal 52200357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 3, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 15, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01363649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Papa Bear LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4074 Roberts Point Rd
Sarasota, FL 34242-1162
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N68AS links to the rest of the register
- Kodiak Aircraft Co Inc KODIAK 100 79 registered
- Kodiak Aircraft Co Inc 113 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 233 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Papa Bear LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Sarasota, FL 294 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 11 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N68AS, 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 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 3, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 15, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 100-0307 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N68AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17267538, cancelled November 22, 1996). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N68AS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data