Lockheed C-130A
N131EC is a Lockheed C-130A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Pacific Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC in Saint Helens, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated September 20, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- C-130A · all C-130As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 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
- 3212
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors · Allison T56A11 SER · 4900 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 262 mph
- Transponder code
- A07F4F (octal 50077517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 27, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 20, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00550525
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pacific Aircraft Services 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
- 396 N 4Th St
Saint Helens, OR 97051-1540
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N131EC links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules 18 registered
- Lockheed 197 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) T56A11 series 1 aircraft with this engine series · 4900 hp
- Pacific Aircraft Services LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Saint Helens, OR 17 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 19 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 9 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N131EC.json.
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The public federal record on N131EC, 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 Pacific Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 27, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N131EC according to the deregistered file. [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 N131EC. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data