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A Fairchild SA227, the same model family as N654AR
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026
N654AR

Fairchild SA227-DC

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArkansas

N654AR is a Fairchild SA227-DC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1994. It has 25 seats. It is registered to Mcneely Charter Service INC, a corporation in West Memphis, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated October 5, 2011.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of McNeely Charter Service, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Fairchild
Model
SA227-DC · all SA227-DCs 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 Fairchild SA227 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
DC868B
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
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Garrett TPE331-12UHR · 1100 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
25
Year built
1994
Transponder code
A89BA6 (octal 52115646)

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 16, 2015
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 5, 2011
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00715052

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcneely Charter 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
737 S Airport Rd Hngr 1
West Memphis, AR 72301-3878
Charter N654AR with McNeely Charter Service, Inc.:

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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 N654AR, 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 Mcneely Charter Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 16, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 5, 2011, 17 years after the 1994 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 DC868B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N654AR according to the deregistered file. [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 N654AR. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data