C A S A CN 212-200
N497CA is a C A S A CN 212-200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1983. It has 28 seats. It is registered to Spore LTD LLC, an LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 28, 2005.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Rampart Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen today at 12:18 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- C A S A
- Model
- CN 212-200
- Serial number
- 291
- 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, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-10R · 940 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A62A4C (octal 51425114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 28, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00183249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spore LTD 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
- 1777 Aviation Way
Colorado Springs, CO 80916-2707
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
Connections how N497CA links to the rest of the register
- C A S A 7 aircraft on the register
- Rampart Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Honeywell TPE331-10R 13 aircraft with this engine series · 940 hp
- Spore LTD LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Colorado Springs, CO 557 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,485 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TPE331-10R 26 airworthiness directives
- Where N497CA is now · Last seen today at 12:18 pm.
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The public federal record on N497CA, 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 Spore LTD LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 2, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 28, 2005, 22 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N497CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4636197, cancelled July 1, 2002). 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]
2 NTSB records under N497CA: Accident on July 29, 2022 at Raeford, NC: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on April 4, 1999 at Waldron, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Casa C212 · operated under 091
The airplane’s encounter with windshear during landing, which resulted in a hard landing and separation of the right main landing gear, and the pilot’s subsequent decision to leave his seat in flight, which resulted in his fall from the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-46-350P · operated under 091
The pilot's encounter with adverse weather and loss of aircraft control, which resulted in exceeding the aircraft's design stress limits. Factors were the pilot's lack of total experience in the make and model of airplane, and the icing and thunderstorm weather conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data