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N9496R

Snow S2C

Valid Montana

N9496R is a Snow S2C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Forsyth, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 15, 1962.

Aircraft

Maker
Snow
Model
S2C · all S2Cs and related versions
Serial number
1136-C
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AD31D1 (octal 53230721)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 12, 2012
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 15, 1962
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00014670

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schwend Brian
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 45
Forsyth, MT 59327-0045

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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 N9496R, 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 Schwend Brian, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 15, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1136-C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9496R 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 N9496R. 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