Dornier DORNIER 228-202
N257MC is a Dornier DORNIER 228-202, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1986. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Bighorn Airways INC, a corporation in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 1999 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dornier
- Model
- DORNIER 228-202 · all DORNIER 228-202s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8102
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331-5-252M · 750 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A27295 (octal 50471225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 1999
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 19, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00414840
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bighorn Airways INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 4037
Sheridan, WY 82801-1237
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.
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The public federal record on N257MC, 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 Bighorn Airways INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 4, 1999, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 19, 2001, 15 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 8102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257MC 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 N257MC. 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 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