Maule M-4-180V
N3456M is a Maule M-4-180V, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Junction, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 31, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-4-180V · all M-4-180Vs and related versions
- Serial number
- 47004T
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C1F · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A3D317 (octal 50751427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 31, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00259589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buxton Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2125 Sequoia Ct
Grand Junction, CO 81507-1041
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3456M, 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 Buxton Michael, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2006, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 31, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 47004T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3456M was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 1391, cancelled January 5, 1994); Piper PA-28R-201T (serial 28R7803171, cancelled February 22, 1984); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2323, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3456M: Accident on October 26, 1991 at Vallejo, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INTENTIONAL FLIGHT INTO KNOWN ADVERSE WEATHER, CONTINUED FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, AND IMPROPER ALTITUDE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS LOW CEILINGS, POOR VISIBILITY, AND RESTRICTED VISUAL LOOKOUT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA029 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data