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N165MA

Mitsubishi MU-2B-26

Valid

N165MA is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-26, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1975. It has 9 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 19, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Mitsubishi
Model
MU-2B-26 · all MU-2B-26s and related versions
Serial number
326
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
Seats
9
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
147 mph
Transponder code
A10555 (octal 50202525)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 16, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 19, 1993
FAA region
—
FAA record id
00853072

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
LLC
Address

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

2003-04-02Piper PA46-500TP · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1983-09-21Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 · Administratively canceled

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N165MA, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued January 16, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 19, 1993, 18 years after the 1975 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 326 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N165MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA46-500TP (serial 4697152, cancelled April 2, 2003); Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 (serial 541, cancelled September 21, 1983). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N165MA: Accident on April 20, 1982 at Lafayette, GA: fatal, destroyed (6 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL82FA110Accident on April 20, 1982 at Lafayette, GA: fatal, destroyed (6 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 541

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL82FA110 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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