Dornier DO-228-202
N169CA is a Dornier DO-228-202, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1986. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Arizona State University, a government body in Hilo, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 30, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dornier
- Model
- DO-228-202
- Serial number
- 8088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-SER · 2650 hp
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A11350 (octal 50211520)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 30, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00380107
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arizona State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 60 Nowelo St
Hilo, HI 96720-6805
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N169CA, 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 Arizona State University, a government body, certificate issued July 16, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 30, 2015, 29 years after the 1986 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N169CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP (serial 4697300, cancelled February 29, 2008). 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]
1 NTSB record under N169CA: Accident on January 18, 2008 at San Antonio, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA46-500TP · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to execute an instrument approach. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's impairment due to recent use of over-the-counter medication.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08FA057 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
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