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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aero Commander 690A
N8PQ is an Aero Commander 690A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1975. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Elkhorn Aviation INC, a corporation in Baker City, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 15, 2001.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Elkhorn Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 9:02 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 690A · all 690As 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 Aero Commander 690 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
- 11243
- 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 · Garrett TPE331-5 · 776 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 241 mph
- Transponder code
- AADE7F (octal 52557177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 15, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00165940
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elkhorn Aviation 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
- 43769 Heilner Rd
Baker City, OR 97814-9756 - Co-owners
- Baker Aircraft
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 N8PQ links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander 690 25 registered
- Aero Commander 709 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Elkhorn Aviation INC · charter operator
- Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-5 7 aircraft with this engine series · 776 hp
- Elkhorn Aviation INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Baker City, OR 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Baker City Municipal · BKE
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander 690 3 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-5 76 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Governor, failed · 2016-11-18
- Where N8PQ is now · Last seen October 17 at 9:02 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8PQ.json.
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The public federal record on N8PQ, 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 Elkhorn Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 23, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 2001, 26 years after the 1975 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 11243 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8PQ 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 N8PQ. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data