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A Cessna T303, the same model family as N494TS
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N494TS

Cessna T303

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMaryland

N494TS is a Cessna T303, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Deep Creek Lake Ventures LLC, an LLC in Oakland, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1996. 2 documents are on file: loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
T303 · all T303s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna T303 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
T30300201
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1983
Transponder code
A620AE (octal 51420256)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 12, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
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 · January 6, 1996
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00251372

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Deep Creek Lake Ventures 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
1567 Pergin Farm Rd
Oakland, MD 21550-6945

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 2

2026-10-20Loan release
2026-10-20Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Connections how N494TS links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N494TS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Deep Creek Lake Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 12, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 6, 1996, 13 years after the 1983 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T30300201 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N494TS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Loan release (October 20, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 20, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N494TS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data