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Martin 404
N259S is a Martin 404, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 52 seats. It is registered to Glenn L Martin Aviation Museum INC, a corporation in Middle River, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Martin
- Model
- 404 · all 404s 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 Martin 404 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
- 14233
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 52
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 210 mph
- Transponder code
- A27A7D (octal 50475175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- 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 · September 25, 1964
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00133262
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glenn L Martin Aviation Museum INC
- 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
- PO Box 5024
Middle River, MD 21220-0024
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.
Connections how N259S links to the rest of the register
- Martin 404 5 registered
- Martin 11 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Glenn L Martin Aviation Museum INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Middle River, MD 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Maryland 2,348 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Martin 404 21 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Martin 404 49 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N259S.json.
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The public federal record on N259S, 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 Glenn L Martin Aviation Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 14, 2001, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14233 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N259S 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 N259S. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data