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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 200D · all 200Ds and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Meyers 200: a steel-tube cabin frame under aluminium skins. This is how the Aero Commander 200 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
- 298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2025
- 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 15, 1965
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00123222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith David W
- 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
- 16089 78Th Ave
Milaca, MN 56353-3505
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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 N260M links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander 200 56 registered
- Aero Commander 714 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,486 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Milaca, MN 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Milaca Municipal · 18Y
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander 200 11 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar, cracked · 1996-07-10
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N260M.json.
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data