Mitsubishi MU-2B-40
N70PE is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-40, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Gst Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-40 · all MU-2B-40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 416 S.A.
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A9537F (octal 52251577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 21, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00182354
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gst Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 55 W Franklin St
Tucson, AZ 85701-1110
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N70PE, 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 Gst Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 27, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 416 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N70PE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 318052137, cancelled November 19, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N70PE: Accident on September 15, 1989 at Ontario, CA: fatal, destroyed (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: Piper PA-31-350 · operated under 135
FAILURE OF THE RIGHT PROPELLER HUB DUE TO METAL FATIGUE WHICH RESULTED IN CATASTROPHIC SEPARATION OF THE PROPELLER. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS DAMAGE DONE TO THE AIRCRAFT AIRFRAME IN FLIGHT BY THE SEPARATING PROPELLER MAKING THE AIRCRAFT UNCONTROLLABLE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89FA314 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data