Aero Commander 200D
N260M is an Aero Commander 200D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milaca, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 200D · all 200Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 157 mph
- Transponder code
- A28010 (octal 50500020)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 15, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00123222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16089 78Th Ave
Milaca, MN 56353-3505
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N260M, 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 Smith David W, an individual, certificate issued May 28, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N260M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco GXE (serial G3015, cancelled February 13, 1948). 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 N260M: Accident on July 31, 2008 at Tecumseh, MI: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 200D · operated under 091
The pilot flaring too high, and his inadvertent pilot-induced oscillation during the landing flare/touchdown. Contributing to the accident was the collapse of the nose landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA225 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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