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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Rockwell International 690B
N44NC is a Rockwell International 690B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1977. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Ponderosa Aviation LLC, an LLC in Safford, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 5, 1977.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Ponderosa Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 1:39 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rockwell International
- Model
- 690B · all 690Bs 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 Rockwell International 690 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
- 11387
- 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 TPE331-5&6SER · 776 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 192 mph
- Transponder code
- A54973 (octal 51244563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 3, 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 · April 5, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00780247
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ponderosa Aviation 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
- 4500 e Aviation Way
Safford, AZ 85546-9479
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 2
Connections how N44NC links to the rest of the register
- Rockwell International 690 114 registered
- Rockwell International 657 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ponderosa Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331-5&6 series 133 aircraft with this engine series · 776 hp
- Ponderosa Aviation LLC 23 aircraft in the fleet
- Safford, AZ 64 aircraft registered in this town
- Safford RGNL/1LT Duane Spalsbury Field · SAD
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
- Where N44NC is now · Last seen October 16 at 1:39 pm.
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The public federal record on N44NC, 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 Ponderosa Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 3, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 5, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44NC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-3 (serial 347, cancelled January 9, 1996); Cessna 402B (serial 402B0852, cancelled December 16, 1988). 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 N44NC: Accident on March 31, 1984 at Missing Acft, MS: fatal, destroyed (6 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 402B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data