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N496BS

Cessna T240

N496BS is a Cessna T240, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 26, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
T240 · all T240s and related versions
Serial number
T24002019
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A6268C (octal 51423214)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 29, 2014
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · September 26, 2013
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01132952

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eckmann Sheri L
Type
Co-owned
Address
319 Santa Cruz Blvd
Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2058
Co-owners
Klansek William B

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

1995-06-05Sellers Mark R KOLB TWINSTAR MK II · Valid registration

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The public federal record on N496BS, 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 Eckmann Sheri L, a co-owned, certificate issued August 29, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated September 26, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T24002019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N496BS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sellers Mark R KOLB TWINSTAR MK II (serial M2164, cancelled June 5, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N496BS. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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