Maule M-4-210C
N51463 is a Maule M-4-210C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bells, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-4-210C · all M-4-210Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1117C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A67391 (octal 51471621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 14, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00011465
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kelly John Thomas III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 985 Calimus Flatt Rd
Bells, TX 75414-2785
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N51463, 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 Kelly John Thomas III, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1117C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51463 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft DCO-65 (serial L-5603, cancelled April 1, 1955). 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 N51463: Accident on April 16, 2001 at Bonners Ferry, ID: 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: Maule M-4-210C · operated under 091
Inadequate preflight inspection/preparation of the aircraft by the pilot and consequent foreign object fouling of the rudder control, rendering directional control impossible. A factor was the pilot's distraction/preoccupation with personal problems.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA01LA072 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