Cessna 401A
N101ME is a Cessna 401A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Ibs America CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 401A · all 401As and related versions
- Serial number
- 401A0130
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A00983 (octal 50004603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 27, 1969
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00881653
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ibs America CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N101ME, 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 Ibs America CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 21, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401A0130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N101ME was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 206H (serial 20608075, cancelled June 3, 2008). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N101ME: Accident on April 12, 2013 at Avon Park, FL: no 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: Harris Pierce VELOCITY XL RG · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power during cruise flight for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination and testing did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13LA204 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data