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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B
N94HY is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to West Metro Aviation LLC, an LLC in Buffalo, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 2, 2005. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 1:40 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1B · all A-1Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 Husky 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
- 2297
- 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 O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AD0B95 (octal 53205625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 2005
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00165179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Metro Aviation 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
- PO Box 667
Buffalo, MN 55313-0667
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 2
Connections how N94HY links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 Husky 897 registered
- Aviat Aircraft Inc 972 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 series 1,070 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- West Metro Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Buffalo, MN 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Buffalo Municipal · CFE
- Minnesota 6,968 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 Husky 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 Husky 39 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 Husky 113 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360 series 426 reports since 1995
- Where N94HY is now · Last seen Saturday at 1:40 pm.
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The public federal record on N94HY, 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 West Metro Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 28, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 2, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N94HY according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (November 6, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N94HY: Accident on August 27, 2006 at Owyhee, OR: minor 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: Aviat A-1B · operated under 091
The pilot inadvertently landing with the parking brake engaged, which resulted in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data