Swearingen SA226-T(B)
N120TM is a Swearingen SA226-T(B), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Interstate Automotive Services INC, a corporation in Franklin, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 16, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Swearingen
- Model
- SA226-T(B) · all SA226-T(B)s and related versions
- Serial number
- T-405
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A05567 (octal 50052547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 16, 1981
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00232010
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Interstate Automotive Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 682111
Franklin, TN 37068-2111
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N120TM, 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 Interstate Automotive Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 3, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 16, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T-405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120TM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Monto Theordore J KR-2 (serial KR7455, cancelled July 20, 1990). 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 N120TM: Accident on October 20, 1989 at Eloy, AZ: 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: Rand Engineering KR-II · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, AND HIS FAILURE TO DISCONTINUE THE APPROACH WHEN IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT THE GUSTING CROSS WINDS WERE EXCEEDING THE ABILITY OF THE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90DUJ04 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