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N778AK

Junior Daniel DANCHINI CUB

Valid Alaska

N778AK is a Junior Daniel DANCHINI CUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Eagle River, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 22, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Junior Daniel
Model
DANCHINI CUB
Serial number
002
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2B · 160 hp
Seats
3
Year built
2023
Transponder code
AA86C9 (octal 52503311)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 8, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 8, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 22, 2023
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
01406217

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Staudinger Garret J
Type
Co-owned
Address
11323 Jessie Mae Cir
Eagle River, AK 99577-7964
Co-owners
Staudinger Mel D

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N778AK, 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 Staudinger Garret J, a co-owned, certificate issued August 8, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 22, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N778AK 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 N778AK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data