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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Socata TBM 700
N850CA is a Socata TBM 700, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2010. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC in Michelstadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 1, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TBM 700 · all TBM 700s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960 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
- 552
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-66 SER · 850 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- ABA78B (octal 52723613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 10, 2026
- 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 · July 1, 2010
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01049839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Qualitair LLC Trustee
- 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
- Flugplatz Michelstadt
Mossauer Strasse 17
Michelstadt, 64720
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.
Connections how N850CA links to the rest of the register
- Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960 1,011 registered
- Socata 1,058 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66 series 160 aircraft with this engine series · 850 hp
- Qualitair LLC Trustee 253 aircraft in the fleet
- FAA orders naming the Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960 65 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960 131 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960 98 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N850CA, 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued February 10, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 1, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 552 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N850CA 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 N850CA: Incident on October 16, 2003 at Albany, NY: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 1900D · operated under 091
The maintenance technician's improper maintenance performed on the airplane, and his failure to perform a functional check, which resulted in a restricted movement of the elevator trim wheel. Factors were the captain's inadequate preflight inspection, and insufficient information in the manufacturer's maintenance manual.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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