{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-11-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-04-15","city":"MUSCLE SHOALS","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01514","engine_horsepower":904,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-02","maker":"Mitsubishi","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MITSUBISHI","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5780460","mode_s_code":"50277611","mode_s_hex":"A17F89","model":"MU-2B-60","n_number":"N196MA","name":"STEF AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N196MA is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Stef Air LLC, an LLC in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2008 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Stef Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 15, 2008, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 764 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N196MA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N196MA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":10,"serial_number":"764 S.A.","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 4049","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00832990","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N196MA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"356624049"}