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N404AV

Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402

Valid Maryland

N404AV is a Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2001. It has 70 seats. It is registered to Wells Fargo Trust CO Na Trustee, a corporation in Columbia, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 25, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Bombardier Inc
Model
DHC-8-402 · all DHC-8-402s and related versions
Serial number
4010
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW150A · 4,580 lb thrust
Seats
70
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A4BB91 (octal 51135621)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 28, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
May 4, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · October 25, 2015
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00843674

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wells Fargo Trust CO Na Trustee
Type
Corporation
Address
C/O Corporate Trust Lease
9062 Old Annapolis Rd
Columbia, MD 21045-2479

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1996-03-07Mcdonnell Douglas F4D · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N404AV, 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 Wells Fargo Trust CO Na Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 28, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 2015, 14 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N404AV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas F4D (serial 650704, cancelled March 7, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N404AV: Accident on August 19, 2018 at Callao: 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

DCA18WA314Accident on August 19, 2018 at Callao: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC8 · operated under NUSC

The Peru Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes Aviación ((CIAA) has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a De Havilland DHC8 that occurred on August 19, 2018. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the CIAA'S investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13. All investigative information will be released by the CIAA.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA18WA314 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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