Eskildsen 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eskildsen
- Model
- STEEN SKYBOLT
- Serial number
- BE1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6BDA (octal 53065732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 14, 1982
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00822135
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northern Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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]
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: 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 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data