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A Cessna 310, the same model family as N69938
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N69938

Cessna 310Q

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama

N69938 is a Cessna 310Q, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 6, 1974.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
310Q · all 310Qs 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
310Q1029
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
1974
Cruising speed
167 mph
Transponder code
A94F07 (octal 52247407)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 18, 2018
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 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 · March 6, 1974
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00060537

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Stapleton John Blase
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7134 Lakeview Dr
Gulf Shores, AL 36542-8916
Co-owners
Stapleton Angela M

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

1955-10-25Fairchild M-62A · Valid registration

Connections how N69938 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N69938.json.

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The public federal record on N69938, 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 Stapleton John Blase, a co-owned, certificate issued September 18, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 6, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310Q1029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N69938 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-3313, cancelled October 25, 1955). 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 N69938: Accident on January 18, 1985 at Beaver, WV: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

ATL85LA080Accident on January 18, 1985 at Beaver, WV: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 310Q · operated under 135

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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