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N5258C

Cessna M337B

Valid Indiana

N5258C is a Cessna M337B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ropkey Armor Museum, a corporation in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 1995 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
M337B · all M337Bs and related versions
Serial number
337M0141
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
141 mph
Transponder code
A69EF4 (octal 51517364)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 22, 1995
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 4, 1995
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00404092

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ropkey Armor Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
7828 Traders Cove Ln
Indianapolis, IN 46254-9614

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

1980-12-11Cessna 310R · exported to Nicaragua · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5258C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ropkey Armor Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 22, 1995, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 4, 1995, 28 years after the 1967 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 337M0141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5258C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R1529, cancelled December 11, 1980). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5258C: Accident on May 17, 1988 at Chemult, OR: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

SEA88LA097Accident on May 17, 1988 at Chemult, OR: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 182E

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369E · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA88LA097 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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