Cessna T206H
N3538R is a Cessna T206H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 6 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T206H · all T206Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- T20608341
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A3F372 (octal 50771562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2002
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 18, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00204017
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department Of Homeland Security
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm 6.4A
Washington, DC 20229-0002 - Co-owners
- US Customs & Border Protection / Office Of Air & Marine
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3538R, 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 US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued March 7, 2002, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T20608341 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3538R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31 (serial 31-7912115, cancelled April 14, 1983); Beech A23 (serial M-706, cancelled August 25, 1971). 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 N3538R: Accident on November 14, 1982 at Spencer, VA: fatal, destroyed (8 fatal). 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-310 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83AA031 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