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N618CA

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
402C · all 402Cs and related versions
Serial number
402C0620
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A80CA9 (octal 52006251)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 18, 1998
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 28, 1999
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00177211

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hyannis Air Service INC
Type
Corporation
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

1989-08-07Cessna 210N · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hyannis Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 18, 1998, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402C0620 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N618CA: Incident on July 27, 2017 at British Virgin Islands. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN17WA291Incident on July 27, 2017 at British Virgin Islands.

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…

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17WA291 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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