Cessna 404
N103RC is a Cessna 404, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Sonrise Aviation LLC, an LLC in Portland, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 29, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 404 · all 404s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4040108
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520-M · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A01153 (octal 50010523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 29, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00023433
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sonrise Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 547 W 100 N
Portland, IN 47371-9051
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N103RC, 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 Sonrise Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 25, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 2012, 35 years after the 1977 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4040108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N103RC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-36 (serial 673, cancelled December 30, 2005). 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 N103RC: Accident on September 23, 2005 at West Memphis, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Mitsubishi MU-2B-36 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper in-flight decision not to land at the departure runway or other available airports during the emergency descent, and his failure to maintain clearance from a vehicle and terrain. Contributing factors were a false engine fire warning light, inadequate maintenance by company personnel, a contaminated fire warning detection loop, and night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05FA272 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