Mitsubishi MU-2B-60
N860MA is a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1977. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Bab Leasing LLC, an LLC in Summerfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1978.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bear Mountain Air LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 11 at 4:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mitsubishi
- Model
- MU-2B-60 · all MU-2B-60s 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 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
- 700SA
- 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
- 1977
- Transponder code
- ABCFEB (octal 52747753)
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 14, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2025
- 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 5, 1978
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00032521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bab Leasing 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
- 6790 Brookbank Rd
Summerfield, NC 27358-9109
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 N860MA links to the rest of the register
- Mitsubishi MU-2 177 registered
- Mitsubishi 199 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bear Mountain Air LLC · charter operator
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331 series 492 aircraft with this engine series · 904 hp
- Bab Leasing LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Summerfield, NC 13 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,132 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mitsubishi MU-2 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mitsubishi MU-2 274 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mitsubishi MU-2 340 supplemental type certificates
- Where N860MA is now · Last seen October 11 at 4:19 pm.
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The public federal record on N860MA, 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 Bab Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 700SA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N860MA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N860MA. 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