Fairchild SA227-AC
N159MC is a Fairchild SA227-AC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Gas/Wilson INC, a corporation in Traverse City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- SA227-AC · all SA227-ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- AC-728B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0ECB4 (octal 50166264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2010
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 8, 1988
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00824351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gas/Wilson INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 2302
Traverse City, MI 49685-2302
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N159MC, 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 Gas/Wilson INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 1, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. 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 AC-728B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N159MC 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]
2 NTSB records under N159MC: Incident on December 28, 1995 at Bemidji, MN: no injuries. Accident on September 29, 1991 at Atlantic City, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild SA227-AC · operated under 135
inadequate maintenance installation and inspection of the elevator flight control system which led to restricted flight control elevator movement due to a loose bolt.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96IA066 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild SW3 · operated under 091
A FAILURE OF THE DOWN LOCK ROLLER BEARINGS OF THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR, AS THE RESULT OF AN IMPROPER MODIFICATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91LA248 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data