Cessna 207A
N9946M is a Cessna 207A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated October 5, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 207A · all 207As and related versions
- Serial number
- 20700588
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-F · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- ADE4B5 (octal 53362265)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · October 5, 2001
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00181947
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9946M, 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 January 9, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 5, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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 20700588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9946M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 207A (serial 20700758, cancelled April 16, 1991). 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 N9946M: Accident on January 9, 1985 at Mt Village, AK: 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: Cessna 207 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC85LA034 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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