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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Maule MXT-7-180
N959DB is a Maule MXT-7-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Sigma Pharmaceuticals LLC, an LLC in Monticello, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 1999.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 5:28 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- MXT-7-180 · all MXT-7-180s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule MXT-7 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
- 14095C
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AD5663 (octal 53253143)
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 20, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 20, 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 · July 2, 1999
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00835782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sigma Pharmaceuticals 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
- PO Box 228
Monticello, IA 52310-0228
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N959DB links to the rest of the register
- Maule MXT-7 134 registered
- Maule 1,345 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sigma Pharmaceuticals LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Monticello, IA 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Monticello Regional · MXO
- Iowa 4,510 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule MXT-7 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule MXT-7 18 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule MXT-7 163 supplemental type certificates
- Where N959DB is now · Last seen Thursday at 5:28 pm.
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The public federal record on N959DB, 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 Sigma Pharmaceuticals LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 20, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 2, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14095C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N959DB 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 N959DB. 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