Mitsubishi MU-2B-40
N449BK is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-40, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Mu2B40 LLC, an LLC in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-40 · all MU-2B-40s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Mitsubishi MU-2 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
- 449 S.A.
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A56C2F (octal 51266057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2026
- 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 · June 5, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00471842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mu2B40 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
- PO Box 8915
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067-8915
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N449BK links to the rest of the register
- Mitsubishi MU-2 177 registered
- Mitsubishi 199 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331 series 491 aircraft with this engine series · 904 hp
- Mu2B40 LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Rancho Santa Fe, CA 32 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mitsubishi MU-2 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mitsubishi MU-2 274 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mitsubishi MU-2 340 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N449BK, 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 Mu2B40 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 18, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 5, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 449 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N449BK according to the deregistered file. [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 N449BK. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data