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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Quest Aircraft Company Llc KODIAK 100
N252K is a Quest Aircraft Company Llc KODIAK 100, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2014. It has 10 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 3, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quest Aircraft Company Llc
- Model
- KODIAK 100 · all KODIAK 100s 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 Quest Aircraft Company Llc KODIAK 100 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
- 100-0109
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-34 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A25FCD (octal 50457715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 8, 2026
- 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 · February 3, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01137011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Trustee
- 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
- 123 W Nye Ln Ste 129
Carson City, NV 89706-0838
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N252K links to the rest of the register
- Quest Aircraft Company Llc KODIAK 100 112 registered
- Quest Aircraft Company Llc 113 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 233 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- International Air Services INC Trustee 611 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 959 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 11 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N252K, 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 International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 3, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 100-0109 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N252K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lockheed 18-56 (serial 2596, cancelled September 12, 2012); Inland/Nelson INLAND SPORT (serial S-308, cancelled March 6, 1934). 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 N252K: Accident on August 28, 1986 at Texarkana, AR: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed 18-56 (HOWARD 250) · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data