Maule MXT-7-180A
N4278M is a Maule MXT-7-180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Clyde, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- MXT-7-180A · all MXT-7-180As and related versions
- Serial number
- 21077C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5191C (octal 51214434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 8, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00795992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Owen Mark
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5780 State Highway 36 W
Clyde, TX 79510-7232 - Co-owners
- Owen Carol
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4278M, 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 Owen Mark, a co-owned, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21077C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4278M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes 369HS (serial 230450S, cancelled March 18, 2014); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-3207, cancelled October 14, 1963). 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 N4278M: Accident on June 7, 1999 at Pacific Ocean, PO: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Hughes 369HS · operated under 091
The removal of the tail rotor blade abrasion strips by the use of an unapproved method by the maintenance personnel which resulted in the imbalance of the tail rotor blade assembly and subsequent separation of the 90-degree gear box; the pilot/mechanic's unapproved repair to the tail rotor blade tip caps; and, his continued operation of the helicopter with known deficiencies.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA253 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data