Socata TBM 700
N442DS is a Socata TBM 700, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1994. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Santori Aviation LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 31, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TBM 700 · all TBM 700s and related versions
- Serial number
- 96
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A55267 (octal 51251147)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 31, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00295258
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Santori Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 55 W 14Th St Ste 101
Helena, MT 59601-3387
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 N442DS, 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 Santori Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 31, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N442DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith Danny L KR 2S (serial 01, cancelled April 13, 2006). 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 N442DS: Accident on October 24, 2003 at Cushing, MN: 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: Shapowal Rotorway Exec 90 · operated under 091
Selection of an unsuitable landing area by the pilot due to the static wire across the approach path. Contributing factors were the pilot's disorientation, the static wire and the low light (dusk) conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04CA020 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