Mellen Dale BUTTERCUP
N258DM is a Mellen Dale BUTTERCUP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marysville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mellen Dale
- Model
- BUTTERCUP
- Serial number
- 258
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-235-C2C · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A2758D (octal 50472615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 19, 2022
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01358085
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mellen Dale
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13638 Leeper Perkins Rd
Marysville, OH 43040-9456
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N258DM, 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 Mellen Dale, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 258 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N258DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company 58 (serial TH-1938, cancelled December 7, 2010). 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 N258DM. 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