Maule M-7-260C
N55000 is a Maule M-7-260C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Gross Flying Service INC, a corporation in Larned, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-7-260C · all M-7-260Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 30031C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A701DC (octal 51600734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 2003
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00009589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gross Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 393
Larned, KS 67550-0393
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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55000, 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 Gross Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 8, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 24, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30031C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55000 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Quicksilver Aircraft GT-500 (serial GT5TC0106, cancelled November 20, 1996); Beech 1900C (serial UC135, cancelled April 20, 1992); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287305287, cancelled date not given). 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 N55000: Accident on March 10, 2015 at Oregon, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 3, 1992 at Gabriels, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Maule M 7-260C · operated under 091
Engine vibration for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15LA170 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 1900C · operated under 135
FAILURE OF THE CAPTAIN TO ESTABLISH A STABILIZED APPROACH, HIS INADEQUATE CROSS-CHECK OF INSTRUMENTS, HIS DESCENT BELOW SPECIFIED MINIMUM ALTITUDE AT THE FINAL APPROACH FIX, AND FAILURE OF THE COPILOT TO MONITOR THE APPROACH. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: WEATHER CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE PRECIPITATION STATIC INTERFERENCE, CAUSED BY INADEQUATE GROUNDING BETWEEN THE RADOME AND FUSELAGE THAT COULD HAVE RESULTED IN UNRELIABLE GLIDE SLOPE INDICATIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA92MA016 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