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Dornier DORNIER 228-202
N263MC 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 Bighorn Airways INC, a corporation in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated June 15, 1999.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bighorn Airways, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 8141
- 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 · Alliedsign TPE331-12UHR · 1100 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A28B38 (octal 50505470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ForestFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00324031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bighorn 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
- PO Box 4037
Sheridan, WY 82801-1237
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 N263MC 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
- AlliedSignal (Honeywell) TPE331-12UHR 10 aircraft with this engine series · 1100 hp
- Bighorn Airways INC 14 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
- Failure reports on the AlliedSignal (Honeywell) TPE331-12UHR 19 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Warning, false activation · 2016-02-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, worn · 2016-01-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire, broken · 2014-07-09
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The public federal record on N263MC, 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 Bighorn Airways INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 25, 1999, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 1999, 12 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 8141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N263MC 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 N263MC: Incident on July 9, 1989 at Chicago, IL: no injuries. 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: Dornier DO-228 · operated under 135
POOR LOOKOUT BY THE CREW OF THE DORNIER AND THE BARON.
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