Cessna T303
N217ME is a Cessna T303, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air Research Ca INC, a corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 5, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T303 · all T303s 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 Cessna T303 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
- T30300188
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520-AE · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A1D49B (octal 50352233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 5, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00150312
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Research Ca INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 970 W 190Th St Ste 470
Torrance, CA 90502-1068
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N217ME links to the rest of the register
- Cessna T303 59 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520-AE 8 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Air Research Ca INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Torrance, CA 295 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna T303 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna T303 59 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna T303 147 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520-AE 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520-AE 16 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N217ME, 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 Air Research Ca INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 5, 2014, 31 years after the 1983 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 T30300188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N217ME 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 N217ME. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data