Cessna 310R
N44VK is a Cessna 310R, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bates Management INC, a corporation in Woodstock, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 21, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 310R · all 310Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 310R1689
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-520 SER · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A54A29 (octal 51245051)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 21, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00383837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bates Management INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 229 Arnold Mill Rd
Woodstock, GA 30188-4145
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N44VK, 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 Bates Management INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 2, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 21, 2001, 22 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310R1689 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44VK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corporation VK-30 (serial 2993, cancelled July 8, 1996). 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 N44VK: Accident on March 22, 1996 at Duluth, MN: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Cirrus VK30 · operated under 091
the inadequate handling/performance design capabilities of the airplane which resulted in the inability to recover from an aft center of gravity spin. Factors were the lack of any antispin or deep stall recovery devices, and the aft center of gravity.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96FA116 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