Maule M-5-200
N56501 is a Maule M-5-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bonner, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 1, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-5-200 · all M-5-200s 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-5 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
- 8022C
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A73BEF (octal 51635757)
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 25, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 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 · October 1, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00540316
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hair Heather D Trustee
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 207 Lower Elbow Lake Loop Rd
Bonner, MT 59823-9807
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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 N56501 links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-5 364 registered
- Maule 1,344 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-360 series 8,562 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Bonner, MT 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Montana 6,037 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-5 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-5 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-5 211 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N56501, 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 Hair Heather D Trustee, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 1, 1991, 8 years after the 1983 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8022C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56501 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 34-7350341, cancelled October 3, 1973). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N56501. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data