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A Cessna 310, the same model family as N6971L
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N6971L

Cessna 310K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N6971L is a Cessna 310K, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cw Equipment Rentals INC, a corporation in Biggs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1966.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
310K · all 310Ks 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
310K0071
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 I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
167 mph
Transponder code
A9473D (octal 52243475)

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 16, 2014
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 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 · February 25, 1966
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00620980

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cw Equipment Rentals 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
3184 Hawkins Ln
Biggs, CA 95917-9752

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1991-07-09Cessna 404 · exported to Colombia · Valid registration

Connections how N6971L links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Biggs, CA 52 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,686 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6971L.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6971L, 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 Cw Equipment Rentals INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310K0071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6971L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 404 (serial 4040119, cancelled July 9, 1991). 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 N6971L. 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