Mitsubishi MU-2B-60
N3MA is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Air 1St Aviation Compainies INC, a corporation in Aiken, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-60 · all MU-2B-60s 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 Mitsubishi MU-2 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
- 1511 S.A.
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Airesearch 331SER 705HP · 705 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A31BB4 (octal 50615664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 1981
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991574
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air 1St Aviation Compainies INC
- 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
- 234 Air Park Blvd
Aiken, SC 29805-8921
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3MA links to the rest of the register
- Mitsubishi MU-2 177 registered
- Mitsubishi 199 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) 331 series 31 aircraft with this engine series · 605 hp
- Air 1St Aviation Compainies INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Aiken, SC 58 aircraft registered in this town
- Aiken Regional · AIK
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mitsubishi MU-2 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mitsubishi MU-2 274 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mitsubishi MU-2 340 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N3MA, 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 Air 1St Aviation Compainies INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 18, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1511 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3MA according to the deregistered file. [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 N3MA: Accident on April 12, 2000 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Helio H-295 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to maintain aircraft control during takeoff initial climb.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data