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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 401A · all 401As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 401 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 401A0130
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 27, 1969
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00881653
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ibs America CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N101ME links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 401 51 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,486 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Ibs America CORP 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,376 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,959 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 401 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 401 166 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 401 157 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data