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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Siai-Marchetti SF260W
N953WT is a Siai-Marchetti SF260W, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Dragons Fly Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lantana, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 6, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Siai-Marchetti
- Model
- SF260W · all SF260Ws 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 Siai-Marchetti SF-260 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
- 289/24-01
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- AD41D2 (octal 53240722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2024
- 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 · September 6, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00354749
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dragons Fly 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
- 8171 Holliday Rd
Lantana, TX 76226-6499
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N953WT links to the rest of the register
- Siai-Marchetti SF-260 23 registered
- Siai-Marchetti 102 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 239 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Dragons Fly Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lantana, TX 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Siai-Marchetti SF-260 3 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 17 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N953WT, 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 Dragons Fly Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 6, 2007, 31 years after the 1976 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 289/24-01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N953WT 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 N953WT. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data