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Siai-Marchetti SF260
N260WL is a Siai-Marchetti SF260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mckinney, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 21, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Siai-Marchetti
- Model
- SF260 · all SF260s 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 SF-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
- 446
- 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 IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A280FC (octal 50500374)
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 13, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2026
- 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 · September 21, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00484921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crouser Darren 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
- 10020 Jungmeister Ln
Mckinney, TX 75071-6571
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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 2
Connections how N260WL links to the rest of the register
- Siai-Marchetti SF-260 23 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 IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Mckinney, TX 239 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Siai-Marchetti SF-260 3 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N260WL, 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 Crouser Darren W, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N260WL was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas A4N (serial 158730, cancelled April 2, 2015); Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5095, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N260WL. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data