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Cessna 402C
N346CH is a Cessna 402C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Ace Flight Center INC, a corporation in St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 17, 2015.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of CH Tech, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 402C · all 402Cs 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 Cessna 402 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
- 402C0029
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520-VB · 325 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A3D3D2 (octal 50751722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 17, 2015
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00580596
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ace Flight Center INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 306962
St Thomas, VI 00803-6962
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
Connections how N346CH links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 402 174 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CH Tech, LLC · charter operator
- Continental TSIO-520-VB 11 aircraft with this engine series · 325 hp
- Ace Flight Center INC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- St Thomas, VI 52 aircraft registered in this town
- U.S. Virgin Islands 91 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 402 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 402 2,252 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 402 192 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520-VB 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520-VB 654 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N346CH, 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 Ace Flight Center INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 17, 2015, 36 years after the 1979 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402C0029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N346CH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95 (serial TD-82, cancelled September 18, 2015). 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 N346CH. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data