Cessna 425
N12268 is a Cessna 425, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Ballard Aviation INC, a corporation in Newton, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 22, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 425 · all 425s and related versions
- Serial number
- 425-0227
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A05E6B (octal 50057153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 22, 1985
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00381646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ballard Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1720 N Oliver Rd
Newton, KS 67114-9496
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12268, 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 Ballard Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 425-0227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12268 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech T-34A (serial G836, cancelled July 17, 1974); Crawford Power Glider Mfg CRAWFORD (serial 8, cancelled December 1, 1934). 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 N12268. 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 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