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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Maule MXT-7-180A
N1040R is a Maule MXT-7-180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- MXT-7-180A · all MXT-7-180As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule MXT-7 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
- 21008C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A015F8 (octal 50012770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- 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 · November 4, 1996
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00246291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rees Christopher
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 428 Wentworth Dr
Winston Salem, NC 27107-6179
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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 N1040R links to the rest of the register
- Maule MXT-7 134 registered
- Maule 1,344 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A1D 1,057 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Winston Salem, NC 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Smith Reynolds Airport · INT
- North Carolina 7,132 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule MXT-7 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule MXT-7 18 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule MXT-7 163 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1D 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1D 82 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1040R, 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 Rees Christopher, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21008C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1040R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven Industries Inc. RX6 (serial RX6200, cancelled July 18, 1991). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1040R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data