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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Maule MXT-7-180
N4198R is a Maule MXT-7-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Taf Aerial Services LLC, an LLC in Beeville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 29, 1999.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 3:26 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- MXT-7-180 · all MXT-7-180s 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 MXT-7 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
- 14096C
- 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 · Lycoming 0-360-C1F · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A4F90F (octal 51174417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · July 29, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00285842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taf Aerial Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3201 Highway 59 W
Beeville, TX 78102-8284
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N4198R links to the rest of the register
- Maule MXT-7 134 registered
- Maule 1,345 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-C1F 102 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Taf Aerial Services LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Beeville, TX 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Beeville Municipal · BEA
- Chase Field Industrial · TX2
- Texas 29,979 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule MXT-7 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule MXT-7 18 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule MXT-7 163 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-C1F 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-C1F 21 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire, damaged · 2003-01-18
- Where N4198R is now · Last seen yesterday at 3:26 pm.
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The public federal record on N4198R, 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 Taf Aerial Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 29, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14096C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4198R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A951, cancelled September 13, 1995); Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-40539, cancelled April 10, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N4198R. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data