Cessna 310D
N86H is a Cessna 310D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 5 seats. It is registered to High Country Aviation LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 3, 1960.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 310D · all 310Ds 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 Cessna 310 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
- 39087
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 167 mph
- Transponder code
- ABCD2D (octal 52746455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 · March 3, 1960
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00732551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Country Aviation 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
- C/O Llctlc/Deer Creek CORP Svcs
PO Box 1840
Helena, MT 59624-1840
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 N86H links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 310 1,410 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- High Country Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Helena, MT 535 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,049 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 310 35 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 310 972 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 310 292 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N86H, 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 High Country Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 20, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 3, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39087 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N86H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-1926, cancelled September 29, 1967). 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]
1 NTSB record under N86H: Accident on November 13, 2023 at Hayden, ID: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 310 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent stall during a precautionary landing. Contributing to the accident was the improper maintenance performed by unknown personnel, which resulted in a partial loss of throttle control of the left engine.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data