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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR
N116CA is a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wingsleasing LLC, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 8, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P-MENTOR · all P-MENTORs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. A carbon-fibre fuselage with aluminium wings. This is how the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 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
- 1116/US
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ISC · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A042B0 (octal 50041260)
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 17, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 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 · July 8, 2025
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01511856
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wingsleasing 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
- 250 N Water St Ste 300
Wichita, KS 67202-1216
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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 3
Connections how N116CA links to the rest of the register
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 73 registered
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna 627 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ISC 66 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Type certificate A000671B · held by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna S P A
- Wingsleasing LLC 117 aircraft in the fleet
- Wichita, KS 1,311 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N116CA, 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 Wingsleasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 17, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 8, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1116/US for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N116CA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech 36 (serial E-46, cancelled January 9, 2018); Aero Commander 500-B (serial 500B113375, cancelled September 10, 1991); Lockheed 18-56 (serial 2472, cancelled date not given). 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]
2 NTSB records under N116CA: Accident on December 12, 1986 at Hagerstown, IN: serious injuries, destroyed. Accident on August 22, 1983 at Silvana, WA: fatal, destroyed (11 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 500B · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed LEARSTAR, L-18-56 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data