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A Cessna 310, the same model family as N6116C
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N6116C

Cessna 310R

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N6116C is a Cessna 310R, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Waukegan Flyers LLC, an LLC in Waukegan, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 15, 1978.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
310R · all 310Rs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 310 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
310R1283
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A7F5A2 (octal 51772642)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 21, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 21, 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 · February 15, 1978
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00881226

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Waukegan Flyers LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2860 Plane Rest Dr # A17
Waukegan, IL 60087-1489

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

1961-03-24Douglas DC-6B · exported to Portugal · Valid registration

Connections how N6116C links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
  • Type certificate 3A10 · held by Textron Aviation INC
Owner
Place
  • Waukegan, IL 21 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6116C.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6116C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Waukegan Flyers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 15, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310R1283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6116C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6B (serial 44116, cancelled March 24, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6116C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data