Maule M-5-180C
N56424 is a Maule M-5-180C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Saunders Equipment INC, a corporation in Cold Spring, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 1983 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 17, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-5-180C · all M-5-180Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 8017C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A73881 (octal 51634201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 20, 1983
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 17, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00280296
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Saunders Equipment INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 265
Cold Spring, NY 10516-0265
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N56424, 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 Saunders Equipment INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 20, 1983, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 17, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8017C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56424 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer TG3A (serial 40, cancelled April 28, 1954). 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 N56424: Accident on July 3, 1984 at Millbrook, NY: no 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 M5-180C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84LA229 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