Cessna T337G
N56DS is a Cessna T337G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to M E L LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 2, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- T337G · all T337Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- P3370048
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-360-CB · 225 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 142 mph
- Transponder code
- A724ED (octal 51622355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- February 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 2, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00440933
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- M E L LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2801 Centerville Rd
First Floor Pmb 6844
Wilmington, DE 19808-1609
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N56DS, 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 M E L LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 2021, 48 years after the 1973 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 P3370048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56DS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Schafer Dennis LANCAIR 360 (serial 001, cancelled May 11, 2015); Steele HATZ (serial 100, cancelled September 5, 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 N56DS: Accident on November 26, 1995 at Mesa, AZ: 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: Schafer LANCAIR 360 · operated under 091
failure of the nose gear strut, during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA055 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