Maule M-7-260
N897M is a Maule M-7-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 8, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-7-260 · all M-7-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4064C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- AC6068 (octal 53060150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 8, 2003
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00134802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glenn David H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 520841
Big Lake, AK 99652-0841 - Co-owners
- Glenn Gale L
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N897M, 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 Glenn David H, a co-owned, certificate issued September 23, 2003, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 2003, 14 years after the 1989 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 4064C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N897M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Nicholas Beazley NB-3V (serial 69, cancelled March 9, 1931). 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]
2 NTSB records under N897M: Accident on August 19, 2002 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 24, 1996 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M-7-235 · operated under 135
The fracture of the right main landing gear axle during landing roll. Factors associated with the accident were corrosion of the landing gear axle, failure of company maintenance personnel to adequately inspect the axle and detect the corrosion, and rough and uneven terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M-7 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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