Lockheed C-130A
N466TM is a Lockheed C-130A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1957. It has 9 seats. It is registered to T B M INC, a corporation in Atwater, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 1989 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; exhibition, dated June 4, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- C-130A · all C-130As 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 Lockheed C-130 Hercules 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
- 57-466
- 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, 4 motors · Allison T-56A-9 · 3750 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 262 mph
- Transponder code
- A5B19A (octal 51330632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 1989
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; Crew training; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 153 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 4, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00354541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- T B M INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2800 Propeller Pl
Atwater, CA 95301-5161
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N466TM links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules 18 registered
- Lockheed 197 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) T-56A-9 6 aircraft with this engine series · 3750 hp
- T B M INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Atwater, CA 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Castle Airport · MER
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 19 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Lockheed C-130 Hercules 9 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N466TM, 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 T B M INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 18, 1989, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 2026, 69 years after the 1957 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 57-466 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N466TM 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]
1 NTSB record under N466TM: Accident on February 1, 2025 at Daggett, CA: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed C-130A · operated under 091
An inflight upset due to an improperly secured load that resulted in serious injuries.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data