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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Short Brothers Plc S312 TUCANO T MK1
N889KT is a Short Brothers Plc S312 TUCANO T MK1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Falcon Air INC, a corporation in Boulder, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 10, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Brothers Plc
- Model
- S312 TUCANO T MK1 · all S312 TUCANO T MK1s 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 Short Brothers Plc S312 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
- T125
- 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 · Garrett TPE331-12B · 1100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AC4037 (octal 53040067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 10, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01290685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Falcon Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2079 Hardscrabble Dr
Boulder, CO 80305-7136
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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 N889KT links to the rest of the register
- Short Brothers Plc S312 40 registered
- Short Brothers Plc 46 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-12B 19 aircraft with this engine series · 1100 hp
- Falcon Air INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 3, 2027
- Boulder, CO 221 aircraft registered in this town
- Boulder Municipal · BDU
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N889KT, 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 Falcon Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 10, 2020, 28 years after the 1992 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 T125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N889KT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1158, cancelled January 25, 1993). 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 N889KT: Accident on January 1, 1992 at Lodi, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE CARBURETOR HEAT CONTROL AND DELAY IN FLARING THE HELICOPTER FOR AN AUTOROTATIVE TOUCHDOWN. CARBURETOR ICING CONDITIONS AND THE SOFT TERRAIN WERE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.
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