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Cessna 402C
N618CA is a Cessna 402C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Hyannis Air Service INC, a corporation in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1999.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Hyannis Air Service Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 5:50 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 402C · all 402Cs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 402 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
- 402C0620
- 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 TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A80CA9 (octal 52006251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- 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 · January 28, 1999
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00177211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hyannis Air Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 660 Barnstable Rd
Hyannis, MA 02601-1927
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
Connections how N618CA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 402 174 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hyannis Air Service Inc. · charter operator
- Continental TSIO-520 series 4,110 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Hyannis Air Service INC 70 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Hyannis, MA 103 aircraft registered in this town
- Cape Cod Gateway Airport · HYA
- Massachusetts 2,646 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 402 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 402 2,252 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 402 192 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520 series 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520 series 412 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar Cap, corroded · 2018-10-31
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar Cap, corroded · 2018-10-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Exhaust Valve, damaged · 2016-09-24
- Where N618CA is now · Last seen Tuesday at 5:50 pm.
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The public federal record on N618CA, 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 Hyannis Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 18, 1998, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 28, 1999, 18 years after the 1981 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 402C0620 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N618CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210N (serial 21063466, cancelled August 7, 1989). 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 N618CA: Incident on July 27, 2017 at British Virgin Islands. 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: Cessna 402 · operated under 135
On July 27, 2017, a Cessna 402C airplane, N618CA, exited the prepared surface during an aborted takeoff at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, British Virgin Islands. The pilots and occupants were not injured and the airplane was not damaged.The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the British government. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the UK AAIB. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) Farnborough House Berksh…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data