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N7848B

Curtiss Wright C-46R

Valid Alaska

N7848B is a Curtiss Wright C-46R, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 69 seats. It is registered to Everts Air Fuel INC, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated January 31, 1985.

Aircraft

Maker
Curtiss Wright
Model
C-46R · all C-46Rs and related versions
Serial number
273
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
69
Year built
1942
Cruising speed
180 mph
Transponder code
AAA2D4 (octal 52521324)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 21, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · January 31, 1985
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00974930

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Everts Air Fuel INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 60056
Fairbanks, AK 99706-0056

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N7848B, 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 Everts Air Fuel INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 21, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 1985, 43 years after the 1942 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 273 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7848B 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N7848B: Accident on July 11, 2024 at Kenai, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 14, 1985 at Nulato, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 2

ANC24LA066Accident on July 11, 2024 at Kenai, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright C-46R · operated under 125

An in-flight collision with birds during takeoff.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC24LA066 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

ANC85LA057Accident on March 14, 1985 at Nulato, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss C-46R · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC85LA057 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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