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A Dornier DO 27, the same model family as N276MK
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N276MK

Dornier DO27A4

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N276MK is a Dornier DO27A4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Turbine Motor Conversions LLC, an LLC in Orange, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 24, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Dornier
Model
DO27A4 · all DO27A4s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dornier DO 27 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
383
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 GO-480-G1B6 · 280 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
8
Year built
1959
Transponder code
A2BDE3 (octal 50536743)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 18, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
June 4, 2025
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 · May 24, 2007
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00103029

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Turbine Motor Conversions LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7926 e Briarwood Rd
Orange, CA 92869-6521

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N276MK links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Orange, CA 73 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,897 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N276MK, 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 Turbine Motor Conversions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 2007, 48 years after the 1959 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 383 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N276MK 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 N276MK: Accident on May 8, 2004 at Marion, 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

SEA04LA196Accident on May 8, 2004 at Marion, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dornier DO27A4 · operated under 091

The pilot's improper landing flare resulting in a hard landing.

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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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data