Maule M-7-235B
N4253A is a Maule M-7-235B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Detroit, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-7-235B · all M-7-235Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 23074C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A510F4 (octal 51210364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 18, 2003
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00001339
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitaker Eric
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2013 County Road 2225
Detroit, TX 75436-3307
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4253A, 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 Whitaker Eric, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 18, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23074C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4253A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hawker Siddeley HS 125 600B (serial 256005, cancelled June 8, 1995). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4253A: Accident on August 22, 1985 at Panama City Bch, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA85LA237 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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