Maule MT-7-235
N47AE is a Maule MT-7-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Polar Air LLC, an LLC in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- MT-7-235 · all MT-7-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18100C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-W1A5 · 235 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A5BEC6 (octal 51337306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 8, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00332779
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Polar Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8353 Saddle Mountain Rd
Bozeman, MT 59715-8789
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.
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The public federal record on N47AE, 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 Polar Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 16, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18100C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N47AE 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]
2 NTSB records under N47AE: Accident on December 17, 1998 at Traverse City, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Incident on November 20, 1996 at Covington, KY: no injuries, minor damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale ATR-42-300 · operated under 121
The crew's failure to execute a missed approach and the flying pilot's (captain) failure to maintain directional control upon touchdown with a seven degree left bank and a right quartering tailwind. Factor's were the snow covered runway/landing area and the night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA055 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Atr 42 · operated under 121
improper use of procedures by maintenance personnel at an overhaul facility during overhaul of the landing gear, allowing corrosion to occur on the barrel lugs of the landing gear, which subsequently led to fatigue cracking of the lugs and eventual collapse of the gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97IA031 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
