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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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of B & F Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 11:22 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 404 · all 404s 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 404 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
- 4040108
- 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 TSIO-520-M · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A01153 (octal 50010523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2023
- 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 29, 2012
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00023433
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sonrise Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N103RC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 404 26 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- B & F Aviation INC · charter operator
- Continental TSIO-520-M 60 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Sonrise Aviation LLC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Portland, IN 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Portland Municipal · PLD
- Indiana 5,700 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 404 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 404 249 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 404 80 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520-M 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520-M 118 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Case, cracked · 2019-06-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hose, deteriorated · 2014-05-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Warning, intermittent · 2005-09-23
- Where N103RC is now · Last seen Thursday at 11:22 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N103RC.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data