{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1956-03-10","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-06","city":"HILLSBORO","country_code":"US","county_code":"067","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52016","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R1340 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-06","maker":"North American","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTH AMERICAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6400469","mode_s_code":"50236706","mode_s_hex":"A13DC6","model":"AT-6A","n_number":"N1796","name":"SOMER CHARLES MICHAEL","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LAGRANGE","damage":"DEST","date":"1982-04-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC82FHM06","probable_cause":"","registration":"N1796","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on April 25, 1982 at Lagrange, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1796 is a North American AT-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hillsboro, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 10, 1956.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Somer Charles Michael, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-6632 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1796 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Spezio Sport DAL 1 (serial 206, cancelled January 31, 2013); Advance Aircraft Co WACO 10 (serial 924, cancelled December 4, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1796: Accident on April 25, 1982 at Lagrange, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"78-6632","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3845 NE 30TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00752510","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1796","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"971244700"}