Cessna U206C
N712VT is a Cessna U206C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Middle Fork Aviation INC, a corporation in Challis, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1990.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Middle Fork Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 10:08 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206C · all U206Cs 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 Cessna U206 Stationair 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
- U206-0932
- 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
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A98568 (octal 52302550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 15, 1990
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00401027
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Middle Fork Aviation 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 656
Challis, ID 83226-0656
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.
Connections how N712VT links to the rest of the register
- Cessna U206 Stationair 798 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Middle Fork Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Middle Fork Aviation INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Challis, ID 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Challis Airport · LLJ
- Cougar Ranch Airport · D47
- Lower Loon Creek Airport · C53
- Marble Creek Airport · ID8
- 1 more landing places in town
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna U206 Stationair 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna U206 Stationair 791 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna U206 Stationair 516 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Where N712VT is now · Last seen yesterday at 10:08 am.
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The public federal record on N712VT, 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 Middle Fork Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 23, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 15, 1990, 23 years after the 1967 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 U206-0932 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N712VT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N712VT. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data