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N87WS

Cessna 441

N87WS is a Cessna 441, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1977. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Keystone Aerial Surveys INC, a corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated March 13, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
441 · all 441s and related versions
Serial number
441-0009
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
131 mph
Transponder code
ABF602 (octal 52773002)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 14, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Aerial surveying · March 13, 1978
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00425220

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Keystone Aerial Surveys INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 21059
Philadelphia, PA 19114-0559

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N87WS, 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 Keystone Aerial Surveys INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 14, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for aerial surveying, dated March 13, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 441-0009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N87WS 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 N87WS. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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