Cessna Aircraft Co 525
N454MA is a Cessna Aircraft Co 525, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Marv Air LLC, an LLC in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 3, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Aircraft Co
- Model
- 525 · all 525s and related versions
- Serial number
- 525-0286
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-1A · 1,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A5820C (octal 51301014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 3, 2018
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01281036
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marv Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 4753
Chattanooga, TN 37405-0753
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N454MA, 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 Marv Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 31, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 3, 2018, 20 years after the 1998 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 525-0286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N454MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 (serial 1535 S.A., cancelled October 18, 2006); Mitsubishi MU-2B-20 (serial 294, cancelled February 12, 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 N454MA: Accident on August 4, 2005 at Parker, CO: 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: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 · operated under 135
The pilot’s failure to fly a stabilized instrument approach at night which resulted in controlled flight into terrain. Contributing factors were; the dark night, low clouds, the inadequate design and function of the airport facility’s Minimum Safe Altitude Warning System (MSAW), and the FAA’s inadequate procedure for updating information to ATC controllers.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05FA202 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