{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-10-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-14","city":"CLYDE","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-18","maker":"Maule","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MAULE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5460187","mode_s_code":"51214434","mode_s_hex":"A5191C","model":"MXT-7-180A","n_number":"N4278M","name":"OWEN MARK","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PACIFIC OCEAN","damage":"DEST","date":"1999-06-07","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"LAX99LA253","probable_cause":"The removal of the tail rotor blade abrasion strips by the use of an unapproved method by the maintenance personnel which resulted in the imbalance of the tail rotor blade assembly and subsequent separation of the 90-degree gear box; the pilot/mechanic's unapproved repair to the tail rotor blade tip caps; and, his continued operation of the helicopter with known deficiencies.","registration":"N4278M","state":"PO","summary":"Accident on June 7, 1999 at Pacific Ocean, PO: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"OWEN CAROL","plain_english":"N4278M is a Maule MXT-7-180A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Clyde, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Owen Mark, a co-owned, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21077C for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4278M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes 369HS (serial 230450S, cancelled March 18, 2014); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-3207, cancelled October 14, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N4278M: Accident on June 7, 1999 at Pacific Ocean, PO: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":5,"serial_number":"21077C","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5780 STATE HIGHWAY 36 W","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00795992","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4278M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"795107232"}