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N409BK, a Cessna 402C
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N409BK

Cessna 402C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMassachusetts

N409BK is a Cessna 402C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Hyannis Air Service INC DBA, a corporation in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 25, 1982.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Hyannis Air Service Inc., so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 8:36 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
402C · all 402Cs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 402 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
402C0651
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1982
Transponder code
A4CE33 (octal 51147063)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 24, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 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 · August 25, 1982
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00813446

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hyannis Air Service INC DBA
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
660 Barnstable Rd
Hyannis, MA 02601-1927
Co-owners
Cape Air

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.

Connections how N409BK links to the rest of the register

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Place
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N409BK, 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 Hyannis Air Service INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued October 24, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 25, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402C0651 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N409BK according to the deregistered file. [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 N409BK: Accident on February 12, 2020 at Barnstable, MA: 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

ERA20CA100Accident on February 12, 2020 at Barnstable, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 402 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to properly secure the crew hatch door before takeoff, which resulted in the door’s forward hinge assembly tearing from its fuselage mount point.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data