Maaks Michael S 162F
N398MT is a Maaks Michael S 162F, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Holland, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maaks Michael S
- Model
- 162F
- Serial number
- 01MM
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- ROTORWAY INTL EXEC 162F
- Transponder code
- A4A1A6 (octal 51120646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 14, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00923543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maaks Michael S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1469 50Th Ave
New Holland, IL 62671-6514
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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 1
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The public federal record on N398MT, 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 Maaks Michael S, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2000, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01MM for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N398MT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Tocholke Martin 1300-Z MAX (serial 398, cancelled March 25, 1997). 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 N398MT: Accident on July 12, 1996 at Lascassas, TN: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Tocholke 1300-Z MAX · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed, while maneuvering (turning) after takeoff, which resulted in an inadvertent stall at too low of an altitude to allow recovery.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA96LA182 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