Maule M-7-260
N5511G is a Maule M-7-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC in Michelstadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 30, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-7-260 · all M-7-260s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-7 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
- 26014C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A705A4 (octal 51602644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 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 · July 30, 2001
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00334074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Qualitair LLC Trustee
- 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
- Flugplatz Michelstadt
Mossauer Strasse 17
Michelstadt, 64720
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 N5511G links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-7 275 registered
- Maule 1,345 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Qualitair LLC Trustee 254 aircraft in the fleet
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-7 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-7 28 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-7 206 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5511G, 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued February 12, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 30, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26014C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5511G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18801110, 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]
1 NTSB record under N5511G: Accident on November 3, 2001 at North Lima, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M7-260 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to retract the landing gear, which resulted in a wheels down landing on water.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
