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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Swearingen SA-226T
N505GM is a Swearingen SA-226T, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1977. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Nc Hold 7 LLC, an LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 12, 1995.
Where is it now Last seen October 19 at 10:14 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Swearingen
- Model
- SA-226T · all SA-226Ts and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Swearingen SA-226 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
- T286
- 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 · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 180 mph
- Transponder code
- A64D25 (octal 51446445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 16, 2026
- 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 · April 12, 1995
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00043548
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nc Hold 7 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
- 4030 Wake Forest Rd Ste 349
Raleigh, NC 27609-0010
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 N505GM links to the rest of the register
- Swearingen SA-226 48 registered
- Swearingen 88 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331 series 491 aircraft with this engine series · 904 hp
- Nc Hold 7 LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Raleigh, NC 350 aircraft registered in this town
- Southern Wake Regional · 5W5
- North Carolina 7,130 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Swearingen SA-226 684 reports since 1995
- Where N505GM is now · Last seen October 19 at 10:14 am.
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The public federal record on N505GM, 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 Nc Hold 7 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 1995, 18 years after the 1977 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 T286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N505GM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-30 (serial 30251, cancelled June 14, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N505GM: Accident on May 11, 1990 at El Monte, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-30 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO ADEQUATELY CONFIGURE THE AIRCRAFT FOR THE TAKEOFF PORTION OF A TOUCH AND GO.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data