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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Cape Copters Llc M16 TANDEM TRAINER
N257CC is a Cape Copters Llc M16 TANDEM TRAINER, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Columbia, Illinois. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 24, 2023.
Where is it now Last seen October 31 at 2:23 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cape Copters Llc
- Model
- M16 TANDEM TRAINER · all M16 TANDEM TRAINERs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A gyroplane: an open steel-tube frame. This is how the Cape Copters Llc M16 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
- 16224054
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- MAGNI GYRO SRL M16 TANDEM TRAINER
- Transponder code
- A271B4 (octal 50470664)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 24, 2023
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01391210
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 331 Carr Creek Dr
Columbia, IL 62236-4564
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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 1
Connections how N257CC links to the rest of the register
- Cape Copters Llc M16 5 registered
- Cape Copters Llc 5 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 914UL 305 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Columbia, IL 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,067 aircraft registered
- Where N257CC is now · Last seen October 31 at 2:23 pm.
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The public federal record on N257CC, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 24, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16224054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N257CC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58P (serial TJ-225, cancelled February 20, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N257CC. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data