Cessna U206D
N72306 is a Cessna U206D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Usda Aphis Ppq, a government body in Edinburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 1995 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 11, 1995.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 11:32 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206D · all U206Ds 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
- U206-1360
- 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
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A9B128 (octal 52330450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 1995
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 11, 1995
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00381437
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Aphis Ppq
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 22675 N Moorefield Rd Bldg 6430
Edinburg, TX 78541-5033
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
Connections how N72306 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna U206 Stationair 798 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,486 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Usda Aphis Ppq 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Edinburg, TX 49 aircraft registered in this town
- South Texas International AT Edinburg · EBG
- Texas 29,940 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 N72306 is now · Last seen October 18 at 11:32 am.
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The public federal record on N72306, 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 Usda Aphis Ppq, a government body, certificate issued May 24, 1995, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 1995, 26 years after the 1969 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 U206-1360 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72306 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9483, cancelled January 29, 1953). 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 N72306. 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