Swearingen SA227-AC
N787C is a Swearingen SA227-AC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Cbg LLC, an LLC in Wilsonville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2005 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1982.
Listed on the FAA airline and charter certificates of Key Lime Air Corporation, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Swearingen
- Model
- SA227-AC · all SA227-ACs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Swearingen 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
- AC-550
- 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
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAAAB9 (octal 52525271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2005
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 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 · December 20, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00671443
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cbg LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 24600 SW Gage Rd
Wilsonville, OR 97070-9799
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
Connections how N787C links to the rest of the register
- Swearingen SA227 31 registered
- Swearingen 88 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Key Lime Air Corporation · airline and charter operator
- Cbg LLC 44 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilsonville, OR 130 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Swearingen SA227 56 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Swearingen SA227 2,465 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Swearingen SA227 104 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cooling Turbine, fumes · 2025-11-24
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brake, burned · 2021-06-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, cracked · 2021-02-23
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The public federal record on N787C, 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 Cbg LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 25, 2005, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC-550 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N787C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3787, cancelled June 15, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N787C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data