Cessna T240
N218CS is a Cessna T240, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Textron Aviation INC, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 12, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T240 · all T240s and related versions
- Serial number
- T24002012
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A1D77D (octal 50353575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · September 12, 2013
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01124737
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Textron Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Cessna Blvd
Wichita, KS 67215-1400
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N218CS, 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 Textron Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated September 12, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T24002012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N218CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T3 (serial 31T-8275016, cancelled February 17, 1999). 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 N218CS: Accident on April 7, 1997 at Stebbins, AK: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-T3 · operated under 135
The pilot's decision to continue VFR into IMC. Factors associated with the accident are fog/obscuration, and the pilot's failure to initiate a go-around earlier in the approach.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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