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N2718Y

Cessna 402C

Valid Montana

N2718Y is a Cessna 402C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Richland Aviation INC, a corporation in Sidney, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
402C · all 402Cs and related versions
Serial number
402C0232
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A2ADBA (octal 50526672)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 21, 2011
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 3, 1979
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00103592

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Richland Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 701
Sidney, MT 59270-0701

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2718Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Richland Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 21, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402C0232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2718Y according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2718Y: Accident on February 7, 1994 at Billings, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

SEA94LA058Accident on February 7, 1994 at Billings, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 402C · operated under 135

THE NOSE GEAR ACTUATOR FROZE. A FACTOR TO THE ACCIDENT WAS TEMPERATURE EXTREMES.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA94LA058 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data