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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- C A S A
- Model
- CN 212-200
- Serial number
- 291
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-10R · 940 hp
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A62A4C (octal 51425114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 28, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00183249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spore LTD LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA348 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW99FA104 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
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