Marsh Aviation S-2F3AT
N442DF is a Marsh Aviation S-2F3AT, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2005. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated May 4, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Marsh Aviation
- Model
- S-2F3AT · all S-2F3ATs and related versions
- Serial number
- 152826
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-14GR · 1650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A5525C (octal 51251134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · May 4, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00071289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5500 Price Ave
Mcclellan, CA 95652-2421 - Co-owners
- California Dept Of Forestry & Fire Protection
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N442DF, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued October 9, 2003, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated May 4, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 152826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N442DF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman S2F-1 (serial 255, cancelled February 5, 2002); Grumman S-2A (serial T136408, cancelled July 16, 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]
1 NTSB record under N442DF: Accident on August 28, 2001 at Hopland, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Grumman TS-2A · operated under PUBU
the failure of both pilots to maintain an adequate visual lookout. The failure of the pilot in Tanker 87 to comply with suggested procedures regarding positive radio contact and orbit entry was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01GA291 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