Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2C1
N796 is a Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 6 seats. It is registered to US Department of the Interior, a government body in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated October 3, 2014.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 4:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Found Acft Canada Inc
- Model
- FBA-2C1 · all FBA-2C1s 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 Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 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
- 50
- 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 · Lycoming IO-540-L1C5 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AACE4E (octal 52547116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 3, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00164669
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department of the Interior
- 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
- Office of Aviation Services
300 e Mallard Dr Ste 200
Boise, ID 83706-3991
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 2
Connections how N796 links to the rest of the register
- Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 19 registered
- Found Acft Canada Inc 19 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-L1C5 18 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- US Department Of The Interior 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Boise, ID 592 aircraft registered in this town
- Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field · BOI
- Idaho 4,199 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 40 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Found Acft Canada Inc FBA-2 97 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-L1C5 28 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Baffle, cracked · 2007-07-16
- Report filed on this aircraft: Baffle, broken · 2007-07-13
- Where N796 is now · Last seen October 17 at 4:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N796, 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 US Department of the Interior, a government body, certificate issued March 16, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 3, 2014, 10 years after the 2004 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 50 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N796 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 690804, cancelled February 12, 1997); Douglas M-4 (serial 655, cancelled April 6, 1929). 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]
1 NTSB record under N796: Accident on January 12, 1995 at Dumont, TX: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Hughes 269C · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO OVERSTRESS FRACTURES OF THE #3 CYLINDER CONNECTING ROD CAP BOLTS. THE ORIGIN OF THE FRACTURES COULD NOT BE DETERMINED.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data