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North American AT-6
N77TX is a North American AT-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Air Cover Academy LLC, an LLC in Frankford, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 13, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- AT-6 · all AT-6s 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 North American AT-6 Texan 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
- 78-6698
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- AA686D (octal 52464155)
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 31, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 31, 2026
- 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 · June 13, 1980
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00350084
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Cover Academy 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
- 9548 Pike 12
Frankford, MO 63441-2509
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 N77TX links to the rest of the register
- North American AT-6 Texan 228 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Cover Academy LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Frankford, MO 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,815 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the North American AT-6 Texan 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the North American AT-6 Texan 117 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N77TX.json.
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The public federal record on N77TX, 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 Air Cover Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 31, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-6698 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N77TX 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 N77TX: Accident on September 3, 2010 at Blakesburg, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American AT-6 · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive airspeed during the landing, which resulted in his decision to perform an intentional ground loop to avoid a runway overrun.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data