Cirrus Design Corp SR22T
N5656M is a Cirrus Design Corp SR22T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sanford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR22T · all SR22Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 0341
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-K · 315 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A73CB3 (octal 51636263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 26, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01097780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buchanan Travis W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 490 Copper Mine Dr
Sanford, NC 27330-3300
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 N5656M, 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 Buchanan Travis W, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0341 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5656M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA-226AT (serial AT071E, cancelled May 1, 1979). 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 N5656M: Accident on July 7, 2025 at Sanford, NC: fatal, substantial damage (4 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cirrus Design CORP SR22T · operated under 091
On July 7, 2025, about 1330 eastern daylight time, a Cirrus SR22T, N5656M, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Sanford, North Carolina. The private pilot and three passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to preliminary flight track data, the airplane departed from Merrit Island Airport (COI), Merrit Island, Florida at 1103 with a destination of Raleigh Executive Jetport (TTA), Sanford, North Carolina. Preliminary ADS-B data showed the airplane stopped transmitting sout…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25FA260 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