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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dornier
- Model
- DORNIER 228-202 · all DORNIER 228-202s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Alliedsign TPE331-12UHR · 1100 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A28B38 (octal 50505470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Forest · June 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00324031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bighorn Airways INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data