Cessna 310D
N6979T is a Cessna 310D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Union, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 4, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 310D · all 310Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 39279
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 167 mph
- Transponder code
- A9485C (octal 52244134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 4, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00730767
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Richard L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 911 Old Cincinnati Pike
West Union, OH 45693-9802
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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 N6979T, 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 Davis Richard L JR, an individual, certificate issued November 23, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6979T 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 N6979T: Accident on December 30, 2024 at Peebles, OH: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 310 · operated under 091
On December 30, 2024, about 1515 eastern standard time, a Cessna 310D, N6979T, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Peebles, Ohio. The commercial pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 ferry flight. According to the owner of the airplane, the purpose of the flight was to ferry the airplane, which he purchased in October, from Branch County Memorial Airport (OEB), Coldwater, Michigan to Alexander Salamon Airport (AMT), West Union, Ohio. The owner stated that the airplane did not have a current annual i…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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