Michael G Darby DARD 1
N696AK is a Michael G Darby DARD 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sloans Aircraft Welding LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 15, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael G Darby
- Model
- DARD 1
- Serial number
- 1533
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1H6 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A9410A (octal 52240412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 15, 2023
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01364771
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sloans Aircraft Welding LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9550 Homestead Trl
Anchorage, AK 99507-6728
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N696AK, 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 Sloans Aircraft Welding LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 15, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2023, 27 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1533 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N696AK according to the deregistered file. [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 N696AK: Accident on March 18, 2024 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Michael G Darby DARD 1 · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control while landing in soft snow, resulting in a nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC24LA019 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data