Mooney M-18C
N496M is a Mooney M-18C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bc Enterprises Of Salina LLC, an LLC in Salina, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M-18C · all M-18Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 246
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A62775 (octal 51423565)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00790705
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bc Enterprises Of Salina LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2503 Flor De Sol
Salina, KS 67401-7147
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N496M, 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 Bc Enterprises Of Salina LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N496M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed VEGA 1 (serial 619, cancelled July 7, 1933). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N496M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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