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N98697

Cessna 402B

Valid Florida

N98697 is a Cessna 402B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Gimli Son LLC, an LLC in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 1, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
402B · all 402Bs and related versions
Serial number
402B1053
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
10
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
198 mph
Transponder code
ADC521 (octal 53342441)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
November 26, 2022
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 1, 1976
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00973620

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gimli Son LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1525 NW 56Th St # G
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-2811

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N98697, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gimli Son LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402B1053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N98697 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N98697. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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