Fairchild SA227-DC
N5LN is a Fairchild SA227-DC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. It has 25 seats. It is registered to M7 Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 23, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- SA227-DC · all SA227-DCs and related versions
- Serial number
- DC878B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Alliedsign TPE331-12UHR · 1100 hp
- Seats
- 25
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A63645 (octal 51433105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 23, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00185222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- M7 Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7800 Washington Ave Ste 700
Houston, TX 77007-4625
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5LN, 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 M7 Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2004, 9 years after the 1995 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 DC878B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5LN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 (serial 799 S.A., cancelled May 1, 2000). 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 N5LN: Accident on November 5, 1998 at Rock, KS: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 · operated under 091
the pilot failed to maintain control of the aircraft and made an improper evaluation of the weather. Additional factors were flying a test flight at night with the icing conditions in the clouds.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99FA023 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