Cessna 525
N278K is a Cessna 525, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2003. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Thienes Engineering INC, a corporation in La Mirada, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 525 · all 525s and related versions
- Serial number
- 525-0527
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-1A · 1,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A2C515 (octal 50542425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 18, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00079869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thienes Engineering INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14349 Firestone Blvd
La Mirada, CA 90638-5527
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N278K, 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 Thienes Engineering INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 25, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525-0527 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N278K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing Airplane Co 40-B-4 (serial 1146, cancelled January 1, 1937). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N278K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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