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Siai-Marchetti F.260
N260MT is a Siai-Marchetti F.260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Rafael, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 19, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Siai-Marchetti
- Model
- F.260 · all F.260s 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 Siai-Marchetti F.260 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
- 3-80
- 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 · Lycoming O-540-E4A5 · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 66 mph
- Transponder code
- A28022 (octal 50500042)
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 24, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 19, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00623632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carlomagno Kent Gene
- 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
- 67 Wharf Cir
San Rafael, CA 94903-2257
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N260MT links to the rest of the register
- Siai-Marchetti F.260 7 registered
- Siai-Marchetti 102 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540-E4A5 9 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- San Rafael, CA 53 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,713 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Siai-Marchetti F.260 15 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Siai-Marchetti F.260 112 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-E4A5 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-E4A5 4 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N260MT, 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 Carlomagno Kent Gene, an individual, certificate issued April 24, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 19, 2012, 40 years after the 1972 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 3-80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N260MT 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]
1 NTSB record under N260MT: Accident on September 30, 1997 at Santa Rosa, NM: minor 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: Siai-Marchetti F.260 · operated under 091
improper planning/decision by the pilot, which led to fuel exhaustion, loss of engine power, and a forced landing. A related factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data