Cessna 207A
N9728M is a Cessna 207A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 14, 1981.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Grant Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 207A · all 207As 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 Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 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
- 20700721
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-520-F · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AD8E8F (octal 53307217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 1997
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- 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 · August 14, 1981
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00294410
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6420 Kulis Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502
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 1
Connections how N9728M links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 115 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Grant Aviation INC · charter operator
- Continental IO-520-F 80 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Grant Aviation INC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,528 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,144 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 314 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 157 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520-F 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520-F 751 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Transmitter, leaking · 2025-02-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Latch, worn · 2020-08-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, smoke · 2019-05-16
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The public federal record on N9728M, 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 Grant Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 9, 1997, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 14, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20700721 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9728M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 670288, cancelled February 1, 1974). 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 N9728M: Accident on December 10, 2019 at Kwigillingok, 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 207 · operated under 135
The pilot's improper decision to depart from an ice-covered runway with a strong crosswind, which resulted in a loss of directional control, runway excursion, and impact with a ditch.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data