Cessna 401A
N6255Q is a Cessna 401A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Valiair Limited Company Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 12, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 401A · all 401As and related versions
- Serial number
- 401A0055
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A82BE6 (octal 52025746)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 12, 1969
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00821696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valiair Limited Company Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N6255Q, 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 Valiair Limited Company Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued March 4, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 12, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401A0055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6255Q according to the deregistered file. [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 N6255Q: Accident on November 18, 2025 at Eureka, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 401 · operated under 091
On November 18, 2025, at 12:30 eastern standard time, a Cessna 401A, N6255Q, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Eureka, North Carolina. The commercial pilot received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 aerial observation flight. The pilot reported that, prior to the flight, he had the airplane serviced with 124 gallons of fuel, topping off the fuel tanks. The pilot stated that the preflight inspection, takeoff, and climb to 17,000 ft were uneventful. During the flight, the pilot transferred the fuel in the …
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data