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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Eskildsen STEEN SKYBOLT
N9QB is an Eskildsen STEEN SKYBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Northern Aviation LLC, an LLC in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 14, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eskildsen
- Model
- STEEN SKYBOLT
- Serial number
- BE1
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6BDA (octal 53065732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 14, 1982
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00822135
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northern 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
- 820 e Aircraft Rd Ste 200
Palmer, AK 99645-6466
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9QB links to the rest of the register
- Eskildsen 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Northern Aviation LLC 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Palmer, AK 546 aircraft registered in this town
- Butte Municipal · AK1
- Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal · PAQ
- Finger Lake Seaplane Base · 99Z
- Gooding Lake Seaplane Base · 2D3
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N9QB, 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 Northern Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 18, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 14, 1982, 7 years after the 1975 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 BE1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9QB 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 N9QB: Accident on November 17, 1990 at Carson City, NV: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S-1E · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING TAKEOFF ROLL AND THE ABRUPT PULLUP TO A PREMATURE TAKEOFF.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data