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N378MQ

Short Bros SD3-60

Valid Wisconsin

N378MQ is a Short Bros SD3-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1986. It has 39 seats. It is registered to Air Cargo Carriers LLC, an LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 24, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Short Bros
Model
SD3-60 · all SD3-60s and related versions
Serial number
SH3700
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors
Seats
39
Year built
1986
Transponder code
A452A5 (octal 51051245)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · October 24, 1986
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00562317

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Cargo Carriers LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5007 S Howell Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207-6157

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N378MQ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Cargo Carriers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated October 24, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH3700 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N378MQ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N378MQ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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