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A Cessna 402, the same model family as N38CJ
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N38CJ

Cessna 402C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N38CJ is a Cessna 402C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Airplane Seven LLC, an LLC in Watkins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
402C · all 402Cs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
402C0023
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 SER · 300 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A4592C (octal 51054454)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 23, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
February 19, 2026
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
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00470194

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Airplane Seven LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 372
Watkins, CO 80137-0372

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.

Connections how N38CJ links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Watkins, CO 50 aircraft registered in this town
  • Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N38CJ.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N38CJ, 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 Airplane Seven LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402C0023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N38CJ 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N38CJ: Accident on March 12, 2002 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW02LA091Accident on March 12, 2002 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 402C-0023

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 402C · operated under 135

The failure of the left main landing gear scissors assembly which resulted from improper maintenance.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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