Cessna 402C
N402VN is a Cessna 402C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Hyannis Air Service INC, a corporation in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 402C · all 402Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 402C0488
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A4B5F7 (octal 51132767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 1996
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 30, 1981
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00721064
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hyannis Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 660 Barnstable Rd
Hyannis, MA 02601-1927
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N402VN, 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 Hyannis Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 1996, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402C0488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N402VN 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 N402VN: Incident on July 27, 2010 at San Juan, PR: no injuries, minor damage. 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: Cessna 402C · operated under 135
The airplane manufacturer’s inadequate inspection procedures, resulting in the undetected fatigue cracking of the right upper barrel and trunnion assembly.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10IA384 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