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A Mitsubishi MU-2, the same model family as N82AF
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N82AF

Mitsubishi MU-2B-40

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Carolina

N82AF is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-40, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1980. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Air 1St Aviation Companies INC, a corporation in Aiken, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 1980.

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Aircraft

Maker
Mitsubishi
Model
MU-2B-40 · all MU-2B-40s 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 Mitsubishi MU-2 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
424 S.A.
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 · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1980
Transponder code
AB2E88 (octal 52627210)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 11, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 11, 2024
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 23, 1980
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00360930

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air 1St Aviation Companies 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
234 Air Park Blvd
Aiken, SC 29805-8921

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N82AF links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N82AF, 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 Air 1St Aviation Companies INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 23, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 424 S.A. for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N82AF according to the deregistered file. [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 N82AF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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