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Maule M-7-260C
N261MM is a Maule M-7-260C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kersey, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 30, 2000. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-7-260C · all M-7-260Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-7 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
- 30015C
- 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
- 5
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A283D3 (octal 50501723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2026
- 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 · October 30, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00335980
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cockroft Scott
- 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
- 27906 County Road 388
Kersey, CO 80644-9608
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 1
Connections how N261MM links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-7 275 registered
- Maule 1,344 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,219 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Kersey, CO 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-7 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-7 28 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-7 206 supplemental type certificates
- 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 N261MM, 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 Cockroft Scott, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 30, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30015C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N261MM according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 1, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N261MM: Accident on May 21, 2026 at Kanab, UT: no 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: Maule M-7-260C · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with gusting crosswind conditions.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data