Cessna U206G
N9178G is a Cessna U206G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboshaft engines, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ursus Air Services, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206G · all U206Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- U20603803
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB423 (octal 53132043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 25, 1977
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00780911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ursus Air Services
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1120 Huffman Rd Box 652
Anchorage, AK 99515-3516
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.
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The public federal record on N9178G, 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 Ursus Air Services, a corporation, certificate issued May 7, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial U20603803 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9178G 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 N9178G: Accident on July 29, 2004 at Yakutat, AK: 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: Cessna U206G · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, and his failure to secure the cargo door, which resulted in the cargo door coming open during the takeoff roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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