Rockwell International 690B
N40SM is a Rockwell International 690B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 11 seats. It is registered to CO Fire Aviation Leasing INC, a corporation in Fort Morgan, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 13, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rockwell International
- Model
- 690B · all 690Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11559
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331-5&6SER · 776 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 192 mph
- Transponder code
- A4ABE4 (octal 51125744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 13, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00520944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- CO Fire Aviation Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 23101 Highway 52
Fort Morgan, CO 80701-9401
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N40SM, 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 CO Fire Aviation Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 4, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 13, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40SM 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 N40SM. 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 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
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