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Dornier DORNIER 228-202
N260MC is a Dornier DORNIER 228-202, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1987. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Big Horn Airways INC, a corporation in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; forest, dated May 12, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bighorn Airways, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dornier
- Model
- DORNIER 228-202 · all DORNIER 228-202s 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 Dornier DORNIER 228 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
- 8121
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-SER · 2650 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A28013 (octal 50500023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 134 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 12, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00963881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Horn Airways 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
- 912 W Brundage Ln
Sheridan, WY 82801-5827
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 N260MC links to the rest of the register
- Dornier DORNIER 228 11 registered
- Dornier 51 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bighorn Airways, Inc. · charter operator
- Honeywell TPE331-series 28 aircraft with this engine series · 2650 hp
- Big Horn Airways INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Sheridan, WY 434 aircraft registered in this town
- Sheridan County · SHR
- Wyoming 3,228 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dornier DORNIER 228 30 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Dornier DORNIER 228 60 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TPE331-series 48 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N260MC, 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 Big Horn Airways INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 2021, 34 years after the 1987 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 8121 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N260MC 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 N260MC. 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 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