Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa C-212-CC
N8517A is a Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa C-212-CC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 28 seats. It is registered to Airbus Ds Military Aircraft INC, a corporation in Mobile, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated July 12, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa
- Model
- C-212-CC · all C-212-CCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Garrett TPE331-10R · 940 hp
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- ABAE5D (octal 52727135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 19, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · July 12, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01278264
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airbus Ds Military Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8100 Airbus Military Dr
Mobile, AL 36608-5031
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8517A, 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 Airbus Ds Military Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 19, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 2023, 42 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8517A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-7970201, cancelled February 27, 2009). 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 N8517A. 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 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