{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1980-11-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-01-09","city":"ANCHORAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"020","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17237","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-520-F","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073605","mode_s_code":"52227062","mode_s_hex":"A92E32","model":"207A","n_number":"N6908M","name":"GRANT AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Dillingham","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-07-28","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA22LA358","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel\u2019s failure to detect and correct improper rudder control system alignment, the resulting interference with the pulley\u2019s rotation, and the accelerated corrosion and wear of the control cable, which ultimately led to its failure in flight.","registration":"N6908M","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on July 28, 2022 at Dillingham, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6908M 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 standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 20, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Grant Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 9, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated November 20, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20700672 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6908M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-4908, cancelled May 12, 1954). 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 N6908M: Accident on July 28, 2022 at Dillingham, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"20700672","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6420 KULIS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00610287","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6908M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"995021816"}