{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2001-10-05","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial surveying","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":"53362265","mode_s_hex":"ADE4B5","model":"207A","n_number":"N9946M","name":"GRANT AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MT VILLAGE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1985-01-09","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ANC85LA034","probable_cause":"","registration":"N9946M","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on January 9, 1985 at Mt Village, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9946M 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 restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated October 5, 2001.","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":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 5, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20700588 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9946M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 207A (serial 20700758, cancelled April 16, 1991). 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 N9946M: Accident on January 9, 1985 at Mt Village, AK: minor 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":"20700588","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":"00181947","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9946M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"99502"}