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N1281M

Cessna 337E

Valid Arizona

N1281M is a Cessna 337E, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marana, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1970.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
337E · all 337Es and related versions
Serial number
33701281
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
142 mph
Transponder code
A073F1 (octal 50071761)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2005
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 13, 1970
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00150680

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wadleigh John M
Type
Individual
Address
4165 W Butterfly Mountain Dr
Marana, AZ 85658-4514

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N1281M, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wadleigh John M, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2005, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33701281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1281M according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1281M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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