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N5631R

Maule M-6-235

N5631R is a Maule M-6-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morganton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Maule
Model
M-6-235 · all M-6-235s and related versions
Serial number
7249C
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A7349A (octal 51632232)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 28, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00340256

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sullivan Shawn R
Type
Individual
Address
4021 Johns River Rd
Morganton, NC 28655-5121

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

1965-07-20Cessna 172F · exported to Zambia · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5631R, 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 Sullivan Shawn R, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7249C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5631R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172F (serial 17253251, cancelled July 20, 1965). 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 N5631R: Accident on September 23, 1982 at Edna, TX: no 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

FTW82DA387Accident on September 23, 1982 at Edna, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M-5-235C · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DA387 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