Maule M-7-260
N309MA is a Maule M-7-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Perkos Pickle Farm LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-7-260 · all M-7-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26002C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A341D5 (octal 50640725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 25, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00593627
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Perkos Pickle Farm LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Pmb 500
Kalispell, MT 59901-1498
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N309MA, 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 Perkos Pickle Farm LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 22, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26002C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N309MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 (serial 602, cancelled December 13, 1996). 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]
2 NTSB records under N309MA: Accident on February 2, 2020 at Manchester, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 21, 1995 at Smyrna, TN: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M7 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper landing flare in crosswind conditions, which resulted in a bounced landing, and his subsequent failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in a ground-loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA20CA098 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN A PROPER CLIMB RATE AFTER TAKEOFF, AND HIS INADVERTENT ENTRY IN A DESCENDING SPIRAL, WHICH HE FAILED TO CORRECT. FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARKNESS, AND THE PILOT BECOMING SPATIALLY DISORIENTED DURING THE INITIAL CLIMB WHILE ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN AN IFR CLEARANCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA95FA226 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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