Maule M-4-220C
N40650 is a Maule M-4-220C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Palmer Paul W, a corporation in Joliet, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated May 28, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-4-220C · all M-4-220Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-4 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
- 2166C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Franklin 6A-350SER · 235 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A4C60B (octal 51143013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 1990
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00931194
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Palmer Paul W
- 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
- 1327 N Raynor Ave
Joliet, IL 60435-4131
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N40650 links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-4 207 registered
- Maule 1,344 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6A-350 series 74 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Palmer Paul W 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Joliet, IL 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Joliet Regional · JOT
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-4 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-4 13 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-4 206 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N40650, 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 Palmer Paul W, a corporation, certificate issued September 26, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 1990, 17 years after the 1973 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2166C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40650 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N40650. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data