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Mitsubishi MU-2B-25
N281MA is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-25, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1973. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Wife Approved LLC, an LLC in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 6, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-25 · all MU-2B-25s 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 Mitsubishi MU-2 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
- 261
- 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 · Airesearch 331 SER 605HP · 605 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 156 mph
- Transponder code
- A2D2C6 (octal 50551306)
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 14, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 6, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00650303
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wife Approved 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
- 21702 Evalyn Ave
Torrance, CA 90503-6355
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 N281MA links to the rest of the register
- Mitsubishi MU-2 177 registered
- Mitsubishi 199 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) 331 series 31 aircraft with this engine series · 605 hp
- Wife Approved LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Torrance, CA 295 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mitsubishi MU-2 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mitsubishi MU-2 274 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mitsubishi MU-2 340 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Solenoid Valve, leaking · 2003-01-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Housing, cracked · 2001-10-25
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The public federal record on N281MA, 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 Wife Approved LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 6, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281MA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N281MA. 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 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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data